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 which is all I keeps. I was therefore thinking, that as you knows all about these here things you might tell me of some kind of saddle, whereby it might be done, for we are all of us little, and very slight. I therefore takes the liberty of axing your advice, and am ready to make you the compliment of a pair of best boot stockings for it.

I think it is a shame the Society of Arts do not advertise a premium for finding out some œconomical scheme of this nature. Instead of which, at this very time, you have a parcel of fellows who go about teaching folks to ride on three horses at once, when as how there are very few, in a moderate line, that can afford to keep half a one.

I am, yours, &c.

P. S. I have some notion the Legs are related to the Gambadoes. I know we are a-kin to the boots.