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comprehend, that his horse was afflicted with a double portion of the String Halt, or that he was to give me a fee for my trouble. So our correspondence closed. But the horse is actually to be seen going, four times a day, in the Greenwich, not the Brentford, Fly, with a dog on his back; and so very rare and uncouth is his method of handling his hind legs, that I have never seen so extraordinary an instance of excellence in canine equitation.

G. G.

N. B. The Public to be told, I am not to be trifled with. This young gentleman never wanted my advice, I dare say; put me to some expence in letters, about a damn'd horse, which he had better have given to his Uncle at once, for his own riding. I don't love a joke myself.