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And now if you will take the word of a trusty 

 teetotaler, who never took stronger than half-and- 

 half, I am really in possession of an unguent of 

 unmistakeable value. The recipe was presented to 

 me by the present chief of Camden Town on the day 

 I resigned my appointment. To all choppers and 

 changers, plasterers and purifiers, it is worth a pound 



a pot. 



THE OINTMENT. 



Take 1 drachm of full-grown caution, 



1 drachm of strong common sense, 

 1 drachm of unquestionable good taste. 



To this add two drops of clear- strained eyesight. 

 Mix and rub well into your own head. 



The natural effect from sympathy will be quickly 



the lightest of the six, but when mounted he is the heaviest. And 

 the average weight of a Light Dragoon appears as hea\y as a 

 Heavy Dragoon ; the only difference being the extra weight of five 

 or six pounds with the Heavy Dragoon when mounted. EngUsh 

 thorough-breds would no doubt be the best description of horses 

 for all light cavalry purposes, provided they had the indispensable 

 desiderata noticed above, with no mistake whatever below the Imee. 

 And if sires and dams alone were taken which possessed these, and 

 instead of being trained for the turf were gradually inured to rough 

 it a little in the open air, an hereditary predisposition in the year- 

 lings to greater hardiness would be the result ; and these yearlings, 

 when grown up, might then stand campaigning as well as their 

 original parents — the Arab horses, besides being able to carry far 

 heavier weights. The elegant contour of head, and the gracefully 

 carried tail of the Arab, as well as the fine limbs, have been lost 

 in more than one-half of the present English stock through in- 

 judicious crossing and over-training. 



