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LETTER THE FIRST
MR. GAMBADO!
I return you my most hearty thanks for the very salutary advice you sent me last month, from which I have derived much improvement, and should have acknowledged sooner, had I made sufficient trial of the fine machine you recommended in such warm terms. My Hobby, as I told you before, is an admirable animal, and finely calculated for a pensive man, like myself, to take the air upon. It was a pity he was so prone to tumble, and that too, in stony roads the most; for he was otherwise bordering on perfection. So I sent for a carpenter, on the receipt of your recipe, and had a large Puzzle of Oak made for him, after
