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replied " Oh, yes, Madam, by all means, shells and all ! " Mr. 

 Gee's horse appeared to me to enjoy the same seeurity against injury 

 causable by restoration as did Juvenal's traveller against loss by 

 robbers when his purse was already empty ! 



But now I must proceed to give you two or three short jottings 

 which I have made with regard to the other horses of our county 

 since I last addressed the Society upon the subject. The Broad 

 Hinton horse I have discovered to have been cut in 1838, with a 

 view of commemorating the coronation of our present Queen, and 

 not three years earlier, as I had been previously informed. Its 

 architect, Mr. Robert Eatwell, only died as recently as 188i. 



The name of the author of the Broadtown horse has also come 

 to light, and with it a very remarkable theory of his as to the 

 genesis of turf-horses generally, which is deserving of record. Mr. 

 William Simmonds, who in 1864 was resident at Littleton Farm, 

 cut it out in some of the grass-land attached to that property, but 

 told my informant a few years ago that he never meant it to remain 

 in its present size. His intention was, he said, to enlarge it by 

 degrees, as that was the way that all horses were made ! It certainly 

 is the way in which Nature makes horses : but there do appear to be 

 difficulties in the way of applying a similar rule to any turf figures, 

 save rectilinear ones, which Mr. Simmonds does not seem to have 

 contemplated. 



Another piece of information I have obtained which had previously 

 eluded me in the most curious manner. I had long known that a 

 horse had been cut out on Bound way Hill in the year 1845, but, 

 although the date was so recent, I had never by any of my numerous 

 enquiries been able to ascertain exactly where it was situated, or any 

 of the circumstances of its construction. At last, about four or five 

 years ago, I got a letter from a gentleman of the name of Barrey, 

 then resident in Hampshire, informing me that this horse was cut 

 by the shoemakers of Devizes at Whitsuntide, 1845, and that it 

 was for years afterwards known as the " Snob's Horse." The word 

 snob, I may add, is used in more than one provincial dialect for a 

 shoemaker's journeyman, and appears in the form of snab in Lowland 

 Scotch for an apprentice to that trade. It must, I have no doubt, 



