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HORSE 256

Horse shot under Albert 256

Bell-Rock Lighthouse Horse 257

Edmund Burke and the Horse 257

David Garrick and his Horse, "A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!" 258

Bernard Gilpin's Horses stolen and recovered 260

The Herald and George III.'s Horse 261

Rev. Rowland Hill and his Horse 261

Holcroft on the Horse 263

Lord Mansfield, his Joke about a Horse 267

Sir John Moore and his Horse at Corunna 268

Neither Horses nor Children can explain their Complaints 269

Horses with Names 270

Rennie the Engineer and the Horse Old Jack 270

Sydney Smith and his Horses 271

Sydney Smith.--He drugs his Domestic Animals 273

Horseback, an Absent Clergyman 273

Judge Story and the Names he gave his Horses 274

Short-tailed and Long-tailed Horses at Livery, difference of Charge 275

ASS AND ZEBRA 276

Coleridge on the Ass 276

Collins and the old Donkey at Odell 276

Gainsborough kept one to Study from 277

Irishman on the Ramsgate Donkeys 278

Douglas Jerrold and the Ass's Foal 278

The Judge and the Barrister 279

Ass that loved Poetry 279

Warren Hastings and the refractory Donkey 279

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