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 It is esteemed a likeness. That of the Hobby is rather flattering,

I have sent you also a sketch of my Puzzle for Dog and Horse, and a scheme for puzzling a Christian.

C. C

MY REMARKS.

I am happy to find the Puzzle has answered so well; and I doubt not, now it has been tried and approved by such a right-headed, Reverend Gentleman, one who is also so good a horseman, and understands all the matter so well, that, by producing his name, I shall be able to get a patent for it, which cannot but prove very lucrative; for who has the horse that he will swear will never tumble down?

This I believe would be a question that would pose (upon oath) every man on horseback in Hyde Park on a Sunday.

Though Dr. Shaw himself, who is a great traveller indeed, has the modesty to assure us, that the Barbary horses never lie down; yet even he has not the effrontery to say that they never tumble down!

I received the sketches of the Puzzles of Dogs and Horses; and hold it fit an etching should be made of them, for the information of those who never saw such machines.

The scheme for puzzling Christians, I suppose, dropt out of the letter, for I never got it. There are, however, so