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To Mr..

SIR,

I have long lamented that Riding should be attended with such expence; and see no reason why many articles attending it, which cost money, might not as well be dispensed with as not. If a Gentleman, when his Bills are brought in, is somewhat put to it, to pay for Hay and Corn (which, by the bye, are necessary, or his Horses would be no better than Jack-Asses), why should he be so very extravagant in the article of Leather? Your Gentleman now-a-days, must