'"I am, sir, '"Your very obsequious humble servant, '"CALEB CASSOCK. '" P.S.--I forgot to tell you my parishioners stare at me a good deal. The machine has an odd appearance, I own, but not altogether unpicturesque. I got the drawing master of Mr. Birch's school to send you a sketch of us. It is esteemed a likeness. That of the hobby is rather flattering." '_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, 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! '"G. G." '_To_ G. GAMBADO, ESQ. '"SIR,--Hearing much of your knowledge in horses, I beg leave to ask your advice in a business where my delicacy, as a gentleman, is deeply concerned, and flatter myself that you will sensibly feel for my situation, my future fortune in life depending on your decision. I have the happiness to be well received by a young lady of fortune in this town, who rides out every morning, and has had the goodness to permit me to join her for some days past. I flatter myself I am beloved, but, sir, the horse I ride is my father's, and he will not allow me to part with him: and this horse, sir, has an infirmity of such an embarrassing nature, that our interviews are unpleasantly interrupted at frequent intervals, and my dear Miss S---- will perhaps ride away with some other gownsman who is more decently mounted. '"Be pleased, sir, to send me a recipe for this complaint, or I may lose my dear girl for ever. I have tried several experiments, but all in vain, and unless you stand my friend I shall go distracted. '"I am, dear Sir, in a great fuss, yours most truly, '"GEORGE GILLYFLOWER. '"St. John's Coll. Cam." [Illustration: 'JUVENUM PULCHERRIMUS ALTER, ALTERA QUAS ORIENS HABUIT PRÆLATA PUELLIS.'--OVID.] '_Note from my Farrier to the above._ [Illustration: HOW TO TRAVEL UPON TWO LEGS IN A FROST.]