Geoffery Gambado : $b or, A simple remedy for hypochondriacism and melancholy splenetic humours — John Shaqi
Geoffery Gambado : $b or, A simple remedy for hypochondriacism and melancholy splenetic humoursCobbold, Richard
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Geoffery Gambado : $b or, A simple remedy for hypochondriacism and melancholy splenetic humours
Cobbold, Richard
Horsemanship -- England -- Fiction; Humorous stories
WHO can look upon the comfortable enjoyment of good and happy people, in
their latter days, and not delight to see them? Such a picture as this,
drawn originally by Henry Bunbury, Esq. and meant to convey a picture of
domestic felicity in his day, would probably produce excessive ridicule
if seen in these fast days. If, now, such a sight were seen in
Rotten-row, however pleasing to the philanthropist, it would be called
an affectation of absurdity. Yet Doctor Gambado, to the last year of his
life, rode in such felicity that he was the only man in his profession
that exactly practised the advice he gave. A contrast to everything in
the present day,--we say to everything like modern enjoyment.
One hundred years ago, there were no puffing steam engines, drawing
thousands, with the rapidity of lightning, to Brighton, Ramsgate,
Margate, and Folkestone. Men all tell us, that domestic felicity is
the same. We do not doubt it; but we find very few, very few, indeed, so
blest with content, and so happy in their mutual society, as our
respected friend, when, with his wife and daughter by his side, he rode
a jog trot at the seaside, or the hillside, or along the fashionable
road of life.
[Illustration]
The Doctor had toiled through good report and evil report, and, like a
prudent wise man, provided the best he could for his own. He kept up his
house in Bread-street, though he declined practice altogether, that is,
for _pecuniary profit_.
I question whether the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
would not have considered this an overloaded beast; but there was no
such society in existence then. The weary camel, toiling over the waste,
might be overloaded; but he would let his driver know how much he would
carry. John Tattsall furnished his good friend, the Doctor, with
elephantine horses, stout, stiff, strong, bony and sinewy; he was,
without the aid of Doctor Cassock, the inventor of a wicker pannier of
such ample dimensions, as to afford the most easy and convenient chair
for each of the ladies, without exposing feet or ancles, or incommoding
boots or dress. Now, indeed, ladies who travel in first-class carriages
by rail, find the seats too narrow and almost destructive to their
crinoline.
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