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By GEOFFREY GAMBADO, E.. e 
RIDING MASTER, MASTER OF THE HORSE, AND GRAND 
* EQVERRY TO THE DOGE OF VENICE. 


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Lord Viſcount TOwWNSHEND, 


| GENERAL or nis MAJESTY's FORCES, 
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COLONEL or ru QUEEN's REGIMENT 
or DRAGOON GUARDS. 


# bt your Lordſhip, as command- 
ing a regiment of cavalry, a 
Treatiſe of Horſemanſhip comes im- 
mediately in the line of your pro- 
feſſion; I, therefore, humbly con- 
ceive, that conſideration alone, would 


autho- 


„ DEDICATED. 


authoriſe me with propriety to re- 
queſt your patronage and protection 
for this my adopted foundling; to 
which petition I am further induced 
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ful to my country : for having, with 
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command, if one may judge by 
appearances, are totally ignorant of 
the graces and ſuperior advantages 
attending Mr. Gambado's ſyſtem, I 
have flattered myſelf, that on a pe- 
ruſal of it, you will not only adopt 
it yourſelf, but alſo uſe your intereſt 


10 


DEDICATION. v 


to introduce it into the ſervice.— 


What might not be expected from 
the Britiſh Cavalry thus improved? 


I might here enter into a train 
of common: place compliments, and 
flouriſh away on the laurels your 
Lordſhip might by this means ga- 
ther, in addition to thoſe already 
acquired; but J will not offend your, 
delicacy: beſides, laurel is a tree 
not cultivated in theſe piping times 
of peace; I {hall therefore conclude 
this epiſtle with my ſincere wiſhes, 
that your Lordſhip may long, very 
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| Moſt obedient 


Humble Seroant, 


SEPTEMBER aft, 1787. 


THE EDITOR has to lament 
that the ſinſt pages of our Author's work, 
are among /t thoſe maſſing, but as the Author 
 hamſelf, in his Preface, ſcems to have ar- 
ranged has ſtring of mſtruchons, the Editor 
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AUTHOR'S PREFACE. 


HERE needs no apology for 
putting forth this little vo- 
lame ; there would, on the other 
hand, need many for with-holding 
it from the pubhck. Philanthropy 
has induced me to make known to 
the world, the following rules; by 
obſerving which alone, horſeman- 


A ſhip 


4 FRAGMENT OF 


ſhip may become a ſafe and plealing 
= amuſement : and I doubt not, but 
1 every true judge of the noble art, 
will acknowledge the excellence of 
my inſtructions; and every true lover 
of it applaud my public ſpirit, in 
circulating them abroad for the be- 
nefit of mankind at large. 


; * * * 2 „ 2 * 

1 

 M I have had ſome difficulty in fix- 
l ing upon a title for my work: A 
it „ . . 

1 Vade Mecum is quite hacknied out: 
| A School 1s become, of late years, a 


term, entirely applied to comedies; 
i and for Every Man his own Horſeman, 
j ” 1 


THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE. w 


an ingenious profeſſor in Dublin aſ- 
fured me it was a bull. 
I have therefore adopted Acade- 
my; I think it is happily choſen, 
properly expreſſive, and has, I think, 
been affixed to but one work of 
genius, viz. The Academy of Com- 
pliments, a publication, which, thanks 
to our preſent politeneſs, is now 
ſcarcely remembered. 
The Academy for grown Horſe- 
men, is a work that has coſt me 
much labour, and the apphcation 
of ſome years, to complete. But, 
when I conſider the vaſt utility it 
may be of to my fellow creatures; 


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vii FRAGMENT or 
that they are to profit by it, and not 
myſelf: 

« Sic vos non vobis, fertis aratra boves.” 


I flatter myſelf I have not waſted 
the midnight oil in vain, © and I 
look with pleaſure on my book, giv- 
ing it to the world with the ſatis- 
faction of a man who has endea- 
voured to deſerve well.“ May many 
be the necks it preſerves for nobler 


purpoles. 
I am happy in having met with 


an artiſt, who has illuſtrated my 
ideas of horſemanſhip completely to 


yy 


THE AUTHOR'S PREFACE. ix 


my wiſhes, and I here beg leave thus 
publickly to acknowledge my obli- 
gations to him. 

As I ſhall be as conciſe and ex- 
plicit as poſſible in the valuable in- 
ſtructions and diſcoveries I am now 
about to communicate to the world: 
it will be the reader's own fault, if he 
does not profitably benefit by them. 
When I have told him how to chuſe 
a horſe, how to tackle him properly, 
in what ſort of dreſs to ride him, how 
to mount and manage him, how to 
ride him out, and, above all, how to 
ride him home again; if he is not a 
complete horſeman in the courle of 
ten 


|| x FRAGMENT, G. 


ten or dozen ſummers, I will be bold 
i to foretell, that neither the {kill of 
| | Mr. Aſtley, nor the experience of 
| Mr. John“ Gilpin, will ever make 


him one. 


* N » Ly . * * * 
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„Ni! deſperandum, me duce Teucro.“ 


| | * Mr. John Gilpin, The author mentions John, to 

i diſtinguiſh him from William. Both theſe gentlemen 

are elegant and enlightened travellers, and have publiſhed 

[ each their tour:— John, his to Edmonton, in 1782 ;— 
William, his to Cumberland, in 1786. 


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THE EDITOR 


3 


EDITOR to the READER. 


j T 1s to the ſame propitious ſtars, which re- 

ſcued the creatures with the craws from per- 
dition, that we are indebted for the recovery of 
the fragments that compoſe this moſt invalua- 
ble work. Fortune indeed was moſt laviſh in 
her ſmiles upon the Editor, by throwing at once 
before his ſight, in an obſcure alehouſe near Lime- 
houſe Hole, on their firſt. landing, the moſt ex- 
traordinary bipeds that perhaps ever viſited this 
country ; and to his much greater aſtoniſhment, 
ſome manuſcript ſheets of his unfortunate friend, 

Mr. Geoffrey Gambado. | | 

On comparing notes (by ſigns) with theſe ul- 
tramarine beings, he concluded, and with much 
reaſon, that the abovementioned ſheets were 
thrown 


*ii Tk EDITOR To 


thrown over board by the author (in hopes 
mankind might yet profit by the recovery of 
ſome of them) at the moment the veſſel that 4 


contained him, was going to the bottom ; which 1 
it is well known was the caſe, in the Gulph of 4 


Venice, a few days previous to the catching of 1 
the Craws; and in this ſurmiſe he ſoon found he 1 
was nearly right, 1 
Two particular circumſtances muſt yet be no- 1 
ticed. The title page ſtiles Mr. Gambado Maſ- 
ter of the Horſe, Riding Maſter, and Grand 
Equerry to the Doge of Venice; and ſo in truth 


he was appointed in the year of our Lord 1785. I 
.. Living in the habits of intimacy with him 
| that the Editor did, he is competent not only 
15 to decide what his views were, but what were 
10 his ſentiments of the Equeſtrians of his own 


. country, previous to his embarkation for Italy. 
in | That he held in utter contempt the mode of 
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and upon the Doge of Venice honouring him 
with the above appointments (and honorary it 
was ſuppoſed they were only meant to be) he 
was ſo elated, that he inſtantly packed up a port- 
manteua, bought two ſaddles, as many bridles, 


fix pair of ſpatterdaſhes, with ſpurs affixed, a 


large roll of diaculum plaiſter, two pair of patent 
ſtirrups, with his MSS. works, (and providentially 


a few drawings from which the plates in this little 


volume are engraved); and in a few hours put 
himſelf on board a veſſel for Trieſte, which failed 
immediately, and was loſt a few leagues from 
Raguſa. A ſailor (one of the few that eſcaped 
by putting himſelf in a fiſh-kettle, and tying it 
round his middle, having previouſly painted it 
green *) has informed the Editor, that he ſaw the 
laſt of Mr. Gambado; and his end was as ſingular 
as his life had been. The veſſel being expected 


to go to pieces every inſtant, he drank a quart of 


—— 


* It is imagined Mr. Ls has fallen in with this man. 
N. B. Not into the Sea. 
B hot 


xiv Tut EDITOR ro 


hot punch, and came cooly on the deck; and 
having firſt called up all the fortitude he was 
able, he next called up his ſervant, with all the 
ſaddles and bridles that could be got; and hav- 


ing mounted himſelf on the largeſt, and taking 


a bridle in one hand, and a paper caſe m the 
other, deſired to be thrown into the ſea. This 
was complied with, but the informant adds, that 
the boatſwain being ſome what deſirous to ſave 
his life likewiſe, haſtily jumped up behind the 
unfortunate Gambado, and he apprehends that 
the ſaddle, although new and large, was not maſ- 
ter of his additional weight, for it dropt with 


ſuch precipitancy as to throw our Author out of 


his ſeat, and his foot catching and hanging in 


the ſtirrup *, ſoon put an end to his mortal ca- 


reer. And it muſt be confeſſed that he made 
his exit en parfait cavalier; and an honour to 


* His patent ſtirrups were 3 packed up, or the Author 
would at leaſt, have had a ſwim for it. 


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his leather he was*. The boatſwain was ſaved 
by laying faſt hold on the crupper., 

The Editor (beſides the friendſhip he enter- 
tained for this great man), cannot help thinking 
it is a thouſand pities, he ſhould have been loſt 
in ſo fooliſh a manner. But ſuch was his rapture 
at the honours conferred on him by the Doge, 
and ſuch his diſguſt for Britiſh horſemanſhip, 
that delicacy reſtrained his friends from ac- 
quainting him there was no ſuch a thing as 
a horſe to be found in all Venice; and yet 


they have not a doubt, if he had been apprized 


of this circumſtance in time, he never would have 
embarked for that capital at all. | 

When the Craws were firſt picked up in their 
pleaſure-boat, it. was obſerved they were all over 
white patches ; upon examination it appeared 


that they were ſheets of paper artfully faſtened 


* An honour to his Cloth—is applied to many a drunken Parſon; 
and I do not ſee why. To Geoffrey, Leather is more ſuitable, 


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xvi Tue EDITOR ro 


round them with ſtrings of ſea-weeds, and the 


ſailors, from the impulſe of curioſity, lifting ſome 
of them up, diſcovered hand-writing underneath. 
It ſhould ſeem that theſe modeſt creatures had 
undoubtedly picked up the papers floating on 


the ſurface of the ocean, and converted them 
to the ſame uſe our firſt parents did the fig- 
leaves. This is however but a conjecture of the 
Editor; who certainly met with the fragments 
of his friend's intended book, in the fame place 
where he firſt ſaw the Craws, apd where he was 
told the circumſtance of their having worn them, 


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ſerve ſheets, although adorned with characters to- 
tally unknown, and unintelligible to them. 


It was neceſſary for the Editor to explain how 
he came poſſeſſed of the few materials that com- 
poſe this work. Having done this, he has only 
to add, that he has recovered a part only of the 
Author's preface, a few drawings, ſome notes, 
an anecdote or two, and about twenty pages of 


inſtructions to grown horſemen ; but ſo broken 


and unconnected, that had he attempted the 


putting them together, he muſt have formed a 


book of his own: Having however, a thorough 
ſenſe of the ſuperior abilities of the original Au- 
thor, he wiſhes rather to give them to the pub- 
lic in ſcraps as he received them, but arranged to 
the beſt of his ability. And he may be bold to 
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hold them inceſſantly open, the public would 
ſwallow them with avidity, and digeſt them, 
either immediately, or at their leiſure. 

The notes that are preſerved, are written in a 
hand unknown to the Editor, and are evidently 
the remarks of ſome good-natured friend of Mr. 
Gambado. By the ingenuity of many of them, 
and their peculiarity of ſtile, they bear ſtrong 
marks of the maſterly pen that produced the an- 
notation to the firſt editions of Mr. Bell's Shake- 
ſpeare. The portrait of the Author, prefixed, 
is engraved from a drawing by another of his 
friends, done from memory; it is like, but a 
likeneſs that tinctures of the prejudice of friend- 
ſhip. Jeffery was not ſo ſlim, or was his eye 
ſo poignant ; nor was he ever known to be poſ- 
ſeſſed of a pair of boots himſelf, though he often 
mentions boots in his writings. 

Of late years, many portraits of celebrated men 
have been given to the public from memory: 
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THE READER. xix 


ble likeneſs of Gray the Poet; another eminent 
writer has treated us with one of the noted 
Charles Price ; and we are now furniſhed, with 
by no means, a ſmall reſemblance of Jeffery 
Gambado. 

Of Jeffery, or as he himſelf deſired it to be 
wrote, Geoffrey Gambado, little 18 known of the 
deſcent : but that his father was a taylor, he him- 
ſelf has aſſured me; and that he lived in Devon- 
ſhire is no leſs certain. Being a prodigious horſe- 
man (his cuſtomers living all at a conſiderable 
diſtance from him) I make no doubt but it was 
in alluſion to him, that the term of © riding like 
a taylor” took its rife. A term ſtill particularly 
applicable to the natives of that county. 

The inhabitants of Yorkſhire and the vicinity 
of Newmarket may turn it into ridicule if they 
pleaſe, but it was meant as highly complimentary 
and honourable to that valuable body of men. 
Was not the flying highwayman a taylor ? were 
not three parts of General Elliott's dragoons 

taylors ? 


136 Tar. EDITOR, Sc. 


taylors ? and was not he who made that dang- 
rous excurſion to Brentford, a taylor? 

We are told in a preliminary advertiſement to 
the Tale of the Receſs, that * the breaks in the 
ſtory only tend to heighten the pathetic.” A 
hope attends the editor, that the breaks in the 
enſuing work will only ſerve to give the reader a 
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A La Folle, Pembroke, and Berenger ; ſo infatuat- 


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the latter, are entirely founded in error, and 
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authors are groſsly miſtaken in all their opinions 
upon the noble art and ſcience of horſemanſhip; „ 
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are partial and ill- founded; that the French Par- 
rocel, and the Flemiſh Wouvermians, drew ſuch 
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blood! and well may they be termed ſo, for 
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which might, and indeed ought to, be brought 
into more play. I mean what is vulgarly called 
the dray-horſe *. This, I profeſs, is a noble ani- 


mal, and admirably calculated to make a figure 


* Or rather dra-horſe. The moſt uſeful animal in the creation, 


and reſpected by all antiquity. His name is immediately derived 


from the Greek verb gw, i. e. drao, to do or work; becauſe it was 
found that he could do more work than any other horſe. The vchi- 
cle drawn by him was alſo well known to the Greeks by the name 
of dray, or rather dra; and it was in this carriage, and not in a 
waggon, as is vulgarly ſuppoſed, that Theſpis carried his ſtage and 
actors. Hence the title of dra-ma and dra-matic, univerſally ap- 
plied to all theatrical pieces. The Greek critics refer the invention 
of ſuch works to the Doric tribes, becauſe this very word drao was 
peculiar to the Doric diale&. If this account be correct, thoſe 


tribes were alſo, without doubt, the firſt breeders of dra-horſes; 
an encomium of high value among a people who derived many 
honourable epithets, as well as proper names, from {kill and zeal in 


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What a ſublime ſcene would i it be, to ſee fourſcore 
or 2 hundred of theſe animals on the full ſtretch 
over a piece of wheat, to catch en of a a hound. 


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legged things of this age fly into a ditch with a 
you, at the ſight of a pocket handkerchief, or the 
blowing of- your noſe; whereas mount one of 5 
theſe, and the world cannot alter your route: — 
Meet a higler's cart, he will ſtop. it, either with 
his own head or your leg; fall i in h 1 kackney 3 
coach, and hewill carry you ſlap daſh againſt bs 

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To define a perfect horſe is nearly impoſlible, 
and to tell you where to buy one, completely ſo. 
However, I ſhall endeavour to deſcribe ſuch out- 
ward beauties and active qualifications, as are re- 
quiſite to the compoſition of one; and ſhould 
ſuch a phoenix fall in your way (and the taſte of 
theſe times are ſo vilely perverted, I believe you 
have a better chance at preſent than you would 
have had ſome years back) I hope you will not 


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Nothing i is more pleaſing to a traveller than the 
ſenſation of contmually getting forward; whereas 
the riding a horſe of a contrary make, 1s like 
warming the banniſters of a ſtair-caſe, when, 
though perhaps you really advance, you een a as 
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dicious rider ſteers his courſe, by fixing his eyes 
between them. Were he cropt, and that as 
cloſe as we ſometimes ſee them now a days, in a 


duſky evening the rider might wander the lord 
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| horſes of me, very inquiſitive and troubleſome 
about their eyes; indeed as much ſo, as if their 
eyes were any way concerned in the action of the 
animal. As I know they are not, -I give myſelf 
very little trouble about them. If a rider is in full 
poſſeſſion of his own, what his horſe has, is per- 
fectly immaterial ; having probably a bridle in 
his mouth to dire& him where to go, and to lift 
him up with again, if he tumbles down. Any gen- 
tleman chuſing, mdeed, to ride without a bridle, 
ſhould look pretty ſharp at a horſe's eyes-before 
he buys him: be well fatisfied with his method 

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3 AN ACADEMY FOR 


of going, be very certain that he 1s docile, and 
will ſtop ſhort with a © Wohey “,“ and, after all, 
be rather {ſcrupulous where he rides him. Let no 
man tell me that a blind horſe is not a match for 


one with the beſt of eyes, when it is ſo dark that 
he cannot ſee : and when he can, it is to be ſup- 


poſed the gentleman upon his back can, as well 
as he; and then, if he rides with a bridle, what 
has he to fear? I flatter myſelf, I have proved 
as clear as day, that eyes are of little conſe- 
quence; and as I am, no doubt, the firſt author 


that has made it known, my readers, if they loſe 


no time, may mount themſelves at Aldridge's, or 
the Rhedarium, as well, and for half the money 
they would have done, before I let them into this 
lecret. 


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* I have ſearched Chambers and Johnſon for this Wohey !- but 


cannot find him. I do not recollect ſuch a word in all Shakeſpeare, 


and he dealt at large in the language. Neither is it to be met with 
in Maſter Bailey's delicate Collection of Provincialiſms. What is 
Wohey ? 

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GROWN HORSEMEN. ,9 


Be ſure to buy a broken knee'd horſe, when- 
ever he falls in your way : the beſt bit of fleſh 
that ever was croſſed will certainly come down 
one day or another ; whereas one that has fallen, 
(and ſcarified himſelf pretty much) never will 
again if he can help it. | 

Spavins, ſplints, corns, mallenders, fallenders, 
Sc. Sc. being all curable, are beneath your no- 
tice. A few of theſe little infirmities in your ſta- 
ble, 1s always a ſubject of converſation, and you 
may, perhaps, now and then want one ; 1t will 
likewiſe juſtify you to your lady, in embelliſh- 
ing your bookcaſe with Bracken, Gibſon, Bart- 
lett, and Griffiths; excellent authors in their 
way, and extremely uſeful ! for you will have no 
occaſion to be ſending for an apothecary upon 
every trifling ailment in your family, but will 
know yourſelf how to make up a good ſtout and 
effectual doſe of phyſic for your wife or ſervants, 
in the gooſeberry ſeaſon, and at the fall of the 
leaf. | | 

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10 AN ACADEMY FOR 


I would recommend a long tail, if it is to be 
had for love or money; if that is not to be got, 
buy a horſe with a rat tail, if poſſible; though 
inferior in point of convenience to the former, 
there is a je ne ſcat quot of comicality about it, 
that inclines us to merriment whenever it makes 
its appearance. There is one inconvenience at- 
tending long tails in ſummer (when the poor 
animals have moſt need of them); and that is, 
horſes full of graſs are very ſubject to ſcourings; : 
in this caſe ride your horſe with his tail 1 in a bag, 
or elſe he may annoy You. | 


Having deſcribed for my reader a horſe, and 


I hope he likes him, I would fain form as com- 


plete a horſeman, and having ſo done, my ambi- 


tion would be gratified, my end anſwered, and I 
would never ride again myſelf, as long as I liv'd, 


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Few writers on this ſubje&t have thought it 
neceſlary to preſcribe any peculiar mode of dreſs 
to equeſtrians. I am ſuch a zealot about the pro- 
priety of their appearance, that I think too much 


cannot be ſaid on the ſubject. Heav'ns! how 


are the laws degraded ſince the abolition of full 
bottoms * in our Courts of Juſtice : : I attribute 
the encreaſe of thievery to it, and firmly believe, 
that ten men are hanged for every inch curtailed 


in a Judge's wig. 


The Editor can only attribute the ſingularity 
of the ten or a dozen lines that follow, to their 
having been written after dinner; Mr. Gambado 


being fond of puſhing the bottle about briſkly. 


His annotator ſeems to think the ſame ; indeed, 


if he was the author's friend, he was a very im- 


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* He might have added, how are our Ladies improved by the 
adoption of them. 


D 2 partial 


12 AN ACADEMY FOR 


partial one, for his criticiſms pretty often border 
on the ſevere. 


Bias, I think it is, that obſerves, the tout enſem- 
ple ſhould be attended to in every thing; he ju- 
diciouſly remarks, that a beautiful woman ill- 
dreſt would be much better, undreſt ; and he 


ſays much the ſame of rabbits and onions, but I 1 


forgot how he brings that to bear. The clear 
headed reader will ſoon perceive I have an eye 
at him; and having provided him with a ſteed, 
I would wiſh to make his rider a match for him; 


for your rider is half the battle “. 
Touching 


* Was ever ſo much abſurdity crammed into ſo few lines! Our 
author could not be, ipſe, he, when he wrote this! Bias talk French! 
O ccelum in terra! and be a judge of a Lady's dreſs too! and under- 
ſtand cookery likewiſe! Why, Mr. Gambado, you really endow 
him with more talents than fell to the lot of the admirable Crichton, 
and you forget, do you, how he brings that to bear; and ſo do] too. 


upon my word. As to your having an eye at the reader, I don't 


believe it: like our honeſt friend Homer, I fancy, this was your time, 


to have been put to bed, 
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Touching the apparel then, I will begin at 
top. Wear a wig, if poſſible, and ſhould you be 
a ſportſman and hunt the “ foreſt, the larger and 
whiter it is, the ſafer for you: for ſhould your 
horſe prove, what is properly termed too many 
for you, and make off, nothing but the ſingula- 
rity of your appearance can reſtore you to your 
diſconſolate family T. The hallooing and hoot- 
ing of the boys that this will occaſion, will enable 
your friends to trace you through moſt of the 
villages you may have paſt; and at the worſt to 
know, in what Part of the country to have you 
cried. 


1 


Half the battle, how vulgar! Our immortal bard, as they call 
him, in his higheſt vagarics never was ſo low as this! 

* The ſtag hunt in Epping Foreſt on Eaſter Monday is ſuppoſed 
to be the moſt ſtriking and ſuperb chaſe in Europe. To this the 
author probably alludes. 

+ The author is here philanthropically amiable; and if the reſtor- 
ing a long loſt huſband to the arms of his ſpouſe, has any claim to 
public reward; we ſhould not grudge it a moment to his white Wig, 
whilſt we are laviſhingly beſtowing it on uſeleſs quackeries. 


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puerile ornament for the head of a ſober man. 


In windy weather you are blinded with it; and 


the ingenious artiſt I have employed to decorate 
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2 man- of buſineſs is not meant a Lord of the 


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what 1s called on the road, a rider, a bag-man or 

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competitor, and the dignity it gives to the moſt 
unhappy countenance, has ſo many others, that 
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windy weather, you are blinded, in rainy, you 
are deluged by a round hat; whereas one pro- 
perly cock'd, will retain the water till you arrive 
at your baiting place, and keep your head (which 


riding might have heated) agreeably cool; 
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Let: your hank * e i Mort and the 


Ani of your breeches b. but juſt reach the joint, Mo + ö 
chat the flap of your Riddle (and obſerve a. ſingle 


flapped ſaddle is the genteeleſt) may be conti- 
nually curling up, and chafing vou between the 


| confines of the boot and breeches, by which 
5 ans, you will b be fatisfied that your leg i 1s in a | 
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dreſs, is wanting; but the editor recollects he 
was a warm advocate for the riding in black 
pluſh breeches in ſummer: and ever recommend- 


ed a coat of pompadour, or ſome conſpicuous 


colour, for the ſame obvious reaſon, that he 
thought a large wig of ſuch moment. 


You may wear ſpurs, if you are not afraid ;. 
and the exerciſing them a good deal, will keep 
your blood in proper circulation, and prevent 
your toes from being cold. 

Be very careful to ſpur your horſe in the 
ſhoulders only; there he has moſt feeling, be- 


cauſe he has moſt veins; beſides, by ſpurring at 


his body, five times in ſix, your labour is loſt; 
if you are a ſhort man, you ſpur the ſaddle cloth; 
if you are leggy you never touch him at all; and 
if middling, you only wear out your own girths, 
without your horſe being a bit the better for it. 

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Elegance of poſition 1s to, be conſidered as 
particularly eſſential to every gentleman that 
appears on horſeback in publick. And I ſhall 
endeavour to point out, what moſt immediately 
conſtitutes it. a 

The mode of leaning the body pretty forward 
over the pommel of the ſaddle, in a walk or a 
trot, has been too little in practice of late years, 


and it is high time it ſhould be revived. There is 


an appearance of airineſs in it, that embelliſhes 
the figure of a rider very much indeed ; particu- 
larly if he be mounted on a long back'd horſe, 
who throws his ſaddle well forward, and is unen- 
cumber'd with a crupper : here, he exhibits an 


elegant picture of careleſs indifference, and ſeems, 


contemptuouſly, to leave all the world behind 

him. | 
By the bye, I have obſerved many a worthy 
citizen ſent on a Sunday into Hyde Park, crup- 
per'd up as tight as need be: but be very ſhy of a 
FE crupper, 


18 AN ACADEMY FOR 


crupper, gentle reader, if your horſe naturally 
throws his ſaddle forward. It will certainly 
make his tail ſore, ſet him a kicking, and very 
likely, bring you into trouble. Experto crede. 

If then, you bend your body well forward, 
your rump ſticking properly out behind, with 
your legs projected, I ſhall have hopes of you; 


you cannot I think fail of ſoon equalling my molt 


ſanguine expectations; and, after having attained 
this excellence (an excellence, let me tell you, 


arrived at but by few, and thoſe, men of the firſt 
knowledge and ſcience, ſuch as the Fellows of 
Colleges, the Livery-men of London, or, per- 
haps the crew of a man of war) I would adviſe 


you, without delay, to attempt another ſtep to- 
wards equeſtrian perfection ; that 1s, on riding 


either eaſtward or weſtward, to make your toes 
point due north and ſouth, or vice verſa. 
Thus your ſpurs may be brought into play, 


with little or no exertion ; and thus, in turning 


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ſharp round a poſt, your horſe may be prevented 
from hurting himſelf by running againſt it “. 
The ſtanding up in your ſtirrups, whilſt trot- 
ting, in the above poſition, has a moſt elegant 
and genteel effect; and I would have you make 
an eſſay to accompliſh it, no doubt you will ſuc- 
ceed, if you have the genius I take you to have. 
A horſe has various methods of getting rid of 
his man; at preſent, I will only advert to one. 
If your horſe tumbles down with you, he will 
ſometimes get up again, and ſhould you not do 
the ſame in concert with him, and your foot re- 
main in the ſtirrup, he may probably extend 
your airing whilſt you remain in that aukward 
poſition ; and however deſirous you may be to 
remain behind, on you muſt go, during his plea- 
ſure. Now, of all the ways of conveyance that I 
have had a taſte of, this is the leaſt agreeable; if 
it ſhould be the ſame to you, provide yourſelf 


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GROWN HORSEMEN. 21 


to ride with a laſh whip; it ſhews the ſportſman, 
and will aſſiſt you much in your ſteerage. If 
your horſe bears too much to the right, of courſe 
you drop the reins entirely on that fide, and 
pull them up ſharp, with both hands, on the 
other; but if that does not anſwer, you muſt 
refer to your whip ,and a good ſmart cut oyer his 
right cheek and eye, will ſoon ſet him ſtraight 
again. - This 1s the mode you will ſee adopted 
by every judicious pig-driver “, and I am told, 
that a pig 1s eſteemed, by judges, to be far more 
averſe to direct progreſſion, than a horſe. 
Lucan informs us, that the Maſſilians t rode 


without 


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* A very in. judicious remark this; were a Pig to be driven in * 
hard and ſharp, or a Weymouth, and a horſe in a packthread tied to 
his hind leg, it is a matter of doubt with me, whether the latter would: 
drive ſo handy as the former. As pigs now can play at cards as well 
as horſes, I think it is but fair to ſuppoſe them capable of dancing a 
minuet with equal activity and grace; whatever Mr. Aſtley may 
alledge to the contrary. The author is very hard upon pigs. 
+ Our author ſeems fond of a bit of foreign language, his Latin, I 
ſuppoſe, he was ſupplied with by the parſon of the pariſh; his French, 
| | I knaw, 


22 AN ACADEMY FOR 
without bridles, and guided their horſes with a 
witch: | 

Et gens quæ nudo reſidens Maſlilia dorſo” 


„Ora levi flectit, frœnorum neſcia virga.” 
Luc. 


„ Without a bridle on the bare back,” 
Make with a ſtick their horſe or mare tack,” 


Virgil ſays the ſame of the Numidians : 


Et Numidz infreni cingunt. T“. 


* See Numidians, on harſes unbridled ap- 
proach.“ 5 


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I know, he got from his father's journey man, who (according to the 
old man's. own phraſe) was taught to diſlocate coats at Paris. The 
Maſſilians are here lugged in, for the ſake of the Latin verſes, or to 


cry down the uſe of bridles; but, as I am one of thoſe gentlemen, 


who had rather ride w:th a bridle, than without one; and as he muſt 
ranſack the blackguard claſlicks for ſcraps of quotations, I will meet 
him, and as Sir Sampſon Legend ſays in the play, Try whether 
my blackguard or his ſhall get the better of the day,” 

Equi fine frœnis, deformis ipſe curſus rigida cervice, et extento 
capite, currentium,”-------L1vy, B. 7. 


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Good riding this; but as to the ſwitch, I'll main- 
tain it that a whole or a half hunter * would be 
more efficacious ; and as to the riding, good as it 
is, if Julius Cæſar did not cut out both Maſſilians 
and Numidians I'll be d—dt; and the reader 
will agree with me, when I produce my autho- 
rity for his horſemanſhip, which 1 is no leſs a cha- 
racter than Montaigne. | 
On dit de Cæſar, quien fa jeuneſſe, monte a 
dos ſur un cheval et fans bride, il lui faiſoit pren- 
dre carriere les mains tournees derniere le dos .“ 
It is extremely wrong to put a gentleman on a 
reſtive horſe ||, when he is going out on buſineſs, 


* Whips, ſo denominated. 

+ Hey day! a new method this of laying down the law. if you go 
on thus, Mr. Author, the law will take you up in return; and it will 
coſt you ſome ſhillings before you come to the end of your book. 

t © It is ſaid of Cæſar, that in his youth, being mounted on a 
horſe's bare back, and without a bridle, he could make him perform 


his paces with his hands behind him. Mox raid xx. 


|| Aftrange epithet this, and I wonder who coined it; tell me of 
a ruſty horſe, and I ſhall know what it means, for I know what 
ruſty locks are, and ruſty weathercocks, 


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or invited to dinner in the neighbourhood. In 


the firſt inſtance, if a man is not punctual, his 
credit is lowered ; and making an apology for 
his horſe will ſeldom be admitted ; nor will any 
one make allowances for a gueſt, it his horſe has 
ſtopt and turned round five thouſand times with 
him, 1n five hundred yards, ſhould the turtle be 
{ſpoiled or the veniſon over-roaſted. 

In ſuch caſes, gentle reader, I ſhould diſmount 
and walk; but if you are averſe to that, and you 
find that the beaſt will not go forward, let him 
have his whim, and go backwards, only take care 
to point his head the wrong way *, he will carry 
you pleaſant enough ſo; but you Ra keep your 
own head well employed over both ſhoulders, 
or it may not anſwer at laſt. 

Be provided with a horſe block, it 1s a fine 
aſſiſtant in mounting, and I am amazed any gen- 


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* Iclearly ſee the author's meaning here : if he W backwards, 
and the nag's head was the right way, he would never get his dinner, 
and it muſt be wrong not to go when invited. Recte Domine. 


tleman 


GROWN HORSEMEN. 235 


tleman ſhould be without one. The only dan- 
ger I know attending it, is, that in your eager- 
neſs to mount, you may, by over-exerting your- 
ſelf, loſe your equipoiſe, and pitch upon your 
head on the off ſide of your horſe. This has 
frequently happened to a friend of mine; but if 
you are cool and temperate, you will take your 
ſeat with eaſe and convenience. By mounting 
thus, you avoid all danger of being kicked, or 
bit which is more likely: as if you are a ſhort 
man, by ſtretching out your toe, to get it ſuffi- 
ciently into the ſtirrup, you are very apt to tickle 
your horle under the elbow, and he will then 
infallibly attack you in the rear with his teeth. 
Beſides the manifeſt advantage in a horſeblock, 
it is a pretty airy ornament to the front of a 
houſe, and moreover, ſhews that the maſter of 
it, is a horſeman; which, let me tell you, every 
man that lives by the road fide is not. A horſe 
is ſometimes ſhy of theſe blocks, if yours ſhould 
be ſo, talk to him a little, ſcratch his noſe, and 

F ule 


26 AN ACADEMY FOR 


uſe ſome gentle endearing method or other; and, 
I believe, the beſt of all is, to bid your foot boy, 
who leads him up to it, give him two or three 
ſmart kicks in the belly on the off ſide. 
You are now mounted, and no doubt, anxious 
to ſet off: here then, obſerve my advice. 
Before ever your horſe gets into motion, clap 
both your ſpurs into him pretty ſharp : this will 
ſet him agoing for the whole day, and ſhew him 
you have ſpurs on, which, if he did not know, 
he might incline to be idle. I do not think 
there can be a more approved mode of ſetting 
off than this 1s, but I muſt caution you, that the 
ſurprize will generally cauſe your horſe to break 
wind, and with a pretty {mart exploſion too: * 
Let not this ruffle you; F many a worthy man 


2 Indecent in a high degree. 


+ This is the ſecond time the Author talks of a worthy man; poſ- 
ſibly he means a man worth a good deal of money, alluding to our 
cockneys. But he ſhould be more explicit when he treats on ſo 


ſerious a ſubject. Worthy, or unworthy, a man ſhould not loſe his 
life for a ſore tail or a f—t. 


has 


GROWN HORSEMEN. 27 


has loſt his ſeat by ſo ſudden an alarm : but uſe 
vill ſoon reconcile you to it, as it does the riſing 
of a covey of birds to a young ſportſman. Thus, 
then, you go off with eclat, provided nothing is 
in your horſe's way, and if there is, you have put 
him ſo on his mettle, he will probably leap over 
it. Indeed, it is far from improbable, that he 
may run away with you, but if he does, you will 
make a moſt ſpirited appearance, as my ingeni- 

ous elucidator ſhews you in the annexed plate. 
When a man is once well run away with, the 
firſt thing that occurs to him, I imagine, is how 
to ſtop his horſe ; but men by no means agree 
in their modes of bringing this matter about. 
Some will run him at a ditch, which I allow to 
be a promiſing experiment, if he leaps ill, or not 
at all. Frenchmen, (and the French are excellent 
horſemen) will ride againſt one another ; no bad 
way either: and I have ſeen riders make directly 
for a ſtable (if a door happens to be open) and 
with gccd effect. How Julius Cæſar ſtopped his 
F 2 horſe, 


28 AN ACADEMY FOR 


T horſe, when he de with tis hands Behind 1 


I am at a loſs to divine. OED 
I remember ſeeing. an in genious Frenchman 
make four experiments upon N ewmarket Heath, 


In only one of which he ſucceeded, His horſe 


made away with him whilſt Gimcrack was run- 


ning a match, and the Count's hopes of ſtopping 
him being but ſmall, he contrived to turn him 


acroſs the courſe, and rode Rap-dath at Gim- 


crack, hoping to effect it by a broadſide; but IF 
he was too quick for him, and he miſſed his aim. 20 


He then made full at Lord March, but unluckily 
only took him ſlantinge baffled in this ſecond 


attempt, he relied on the Devil's ditch, as a cer- 


tain check to his career; but his horſe carried 


him clean over, ſafe and : and had not the 


85 rubbing-houſe preſented itſelf to his view, he af- 
ſured me, he believed. he Hould have ſoon: 
reached London; daſhing at this, with a true 


French ſpirit, he produced the deſired effect; his 
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GROWN HORSEMEN. 29 


that ſo ſuddenly, that the Earl of Pembroke him- 
ſelf would have been diſlodged, and old New- 
_ caſtle lain with his mother Earth. The Count» 
it 1s true, came off, but tolerably well; the horſe 
broke his head, and the Count hkewile ; ſo that 
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done. | 
Having ſaid thus much on the ſubject of being 
run away with, it is neceſſary I ſhould decide, for 
the benefit of my readers, on the means I moſt 
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where the driver fits on the right hand, to paſs 
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and 


39 AN ACADEMY FOR 


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led one, you might otherwiſe ſet the man's horſe 
capering, - and perhaps throw him off; and you 
can get but a : kick or two WM obſerving my 


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Take care never to throw a borſe down, 
it is an unlucky trick: and fit only for boys. 
6 Many gentlemen of my. acquaintance, and I to0» 
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up the bank without heſitation ; for ſhould you 
take the other ſide, and your fr ſhy at the 
carriage, you may be carried many hundred 
yards out of your road ; whereas by a little effort 
of courage, you need only graze the wheel, fly 
up the bank, and by ſlipping or tumbling down 
into the road again, go little or nothing out of 
your way. 

I have given you the above hints, ſuppoſing 
you are now at home enough on horſeback, to 
ride out alone, and may poſſibly be tempted to 
travel the road; as either the luere of gain, or 
the univerſal paſt on, as a celebrated author calls 
the love of F. ame, may ſend you forth. 

Let me entreat you to examine your tackling 
well at ſetting out, particularly from an inn, 
and after dinner: ſee that your girths are tight; 
many a good fall have I got by not attending 
to this. Hoſtlers are too apt to be careleſs, and 
ought never to be paid till we ſee them the next 

time. 


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. time. An inltance aff a fi ngular ature occurred | 


at Huntingdon a few- years ſince to the Rev, D 


B. of Jeſus College 1 in Cambridge; ; which TAR” 
given a diſcovery to the world produftiveindeed | 
of a paper war) but which may turn out benefi- 


cial to mankind, as it proves g to be equal to 4. 


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the ſame period for paſling a ſtile, in ſome caſes, that is here judi- 
ciouſly recommended: for the payment or an hoftler : his precept 
was, that A well bred: man meeting anotheh n the oppoſite ſide of 
A ſtile, ought on no account to. be perſuades 0 go over firſt, The 


name of this i ingenious author was: Towle. Had two zealous pupils, 
| of his ſchool met each' other at a ſtile, i it is ſuppoſed they, muſt have 
. * concluded their lives on the premiſes. "Unleſs the uche had b 95 
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Erbept perchance i in the Fool's Calendar. 


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when he ſet out northwards : 1 myſelf ſaw gs. 
charged in his bill for wine; this accounts for his 
want _ of, obſervation ; for the hoſtler's, I muſt 
attribute it to his having been paid beforehand. 
The Doctor went off at a ſpurt, pretty much in 
the manner I have recommended, and having 
got clear of the pavement, wiſhed to (what is 
called) mend his pace; but his horſe was obdu- 
rate, and all his influence could not prevail. The 
Doctor fancied, at times, he went oddly, and 
therefore brought to at Alconbury, five miles 
from Huntingdon, and alighted for an exami- 
nation: when he diſcovered that the hoſtler, 
through inattention, had buckled up one of the 
horſe's hind legs in the ſurcingle: and to this alone 
he had to attribute his hobbling way of going. 
There was an * hoſtler at Barnet, who was a 
moraliſt ; poſſibly this at Huntingdon WAS an ex- 
perimental philoſpher, and thought an old mem- 
ber of the Univerſity the propereſt ſubject to put 


* J ames Ripley, many years, and till very lately, hoſtler at the 
Red Lion, Publiſhed a Volume of Letters, 


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34 AN ACADEMY FOR 


his experiment in execution. It certainly anſwer- 
ed, as far as five miles; but how it would ſucceed 
in bringing horſes of different forms together over 
Newmarket, I am not competent to determine. 
It ſeems as if one might work a lame horſe thus, 
and keep his unſound leg quiet. If this experi- 
ment has been repeated, it has been in private, for 
I have not heard of it; and I much queſtion if 
it would ever be generally adopted; when, I ſay 
generally, no reflection upon General ofhcers. A 
timid Major however, might keep his horfe in 
due ſubjection on a review day, by this method. 


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horſemanſhip, it is poſlibly in my recommending | 
the ſhoulder as the proper place to apply the 
ſpurs to. In this I am ſupported by no lefs a man 
than Virgil; and your Romans excelled as much 
in riding as they did in fighting. Virgil was an 


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