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Excerpt from An Academy for Grown Horsemen: Containing the Completest Instructions for Walking, Trotting, Cantering, Galloping, Stumbling, and Tumbling IT is to the Same propitious stars, which rescued the creatures with the craws from per dition, that we are indebted for the recovery Of the fragments that compose this most inva lnable work. Fortune indeed was most lavish in her smiles upon the Editor, by throwing at once before his sight, in an Obscure alehouse near Limehouse Hole, on their first landing, the most extraordinary bipeds that perhaps ever visited this country; and to his much greater astonishment, some manuscript sheets of his unfortunate friend, Mr. Geoffrey Gam bado. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.