EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. I AM not, perhaps, paying a very high compliment to my pencil in thinking an explanation of its attempts necessary. This is, however, a matter of no consequence to any one. But, at all events, I beg my readers to believe that I mean no ill compliment to them; and this is a matter of very serious consequence to me. The difference between the riders and horses in the two plates will be apparent at a glance, and a consummate judge of horsemen and horses would require no explanation of this: but, as the class of readers to whom alone I dare flatter myself this book will be found useful do not profess to be in that happy state, I think it desirable to describe to them the particular points of distinction between "going like workmen," and "going like muffs." If we look at the horse going like a workman, we see him one of a sort I have described as likely to be |