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 in his old way, with his fore legs only, you were to dismount, and clap your whip, or stick, properly under his tail, and then mount again; the putting him in a little motion will set him on his kicking principles in a hurry, and it's ten to one but, by this means, you get his hind legs to follow the others. You will be able, perhaps, to extricate your stick from its place of confinement, when you are up and over (if you an't down); but should you not, it is but sixpence gone. I send you this as a mere surmise; perhaps it may answer, perhaps not.

I thank you for your offer, which is a very kind one, but I beg to be excused accepting it; all my ambition being to add to the theory, with as little practice as possible.

I am, Rev. Sir, your most humble Servant,

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''Rev. Nic. Nutmeg, Hinderclay, Suffolk.''

N. B. What you enclosed was perfectly genteel, and agreeable too.