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ance, during a fit of listlessness or incuria! For the fact is, and I even at the time stated it, that I generally supposed the colour of Childers to have been bay, was well aware of the existence of an original portrait of him in the Devonshire collection, and also of another in the possession of Mr. Sandiver, of Newmarket, referred to, as I recollect, in that gentleman's polite and obliging letter to me, whilst writing the History of the Horse. There must have been some mistake, for which I cannot at present account, relative to the

picture, presumed to represent Flying Childers as a chesnut horse.

Your Correspondent need entertain no doubt of my accepting in good part his concluding recommendation, so excellent an earnest has he given both of his candour and his ability. And I trust, notwithstanding the slip in question, magnified, however, by the consideration, that the road was of all others, the most firm and level, he has not found me prone-“ to

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Feel not only gratified by the good opinion of your Corres pondent, "A CONSTANT READER,” but under considerable obligation for his correction of my нuaеcountable new reading, on such a slight foundation too, respecting the colour of Flying Childers, which was incontestibly bay, and of which your Correspondent has at once adduced the most unerring proofs. After this, let not a man be too positive, as to what he possibly may, or may not advance, on occasions of no great import

in truth, I have no sort of predilection for novelty and paradox, or the tossing about of right and wrong in a bag, in order to discover which will turn uppermost. I have been long aware of the waste of precious time, the inutility, the folly, of such procedure. My only objects are truth and right, he whatever the pursuit.Am I in an error, the common lot? the instant I am rationally convinced, and I hunger and thirst for conviction; my erroneous opinion is discarded, I embrace that of my instructor, whom I thenceforth es teem as a benefactor.

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