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THE AMERICAN LOUNGER.

BY SAMUEL SAUNTER, ESQ.
No. 153.

First with nimble active force
He got on the outside of his horse!
For, having but one stirrup ty'd
T' his saddle on the further side,
It was so short h' had much ado
To reach it with his desperate toe;
But after many strains and heaves,
He got up to the saddie-eaves.

But now we talk of mounting steed,
Before we further do proceed,
It doth behove us to say something
Of that, which bore our valiant Bumkin.
He was well stay'd, and in his gait
Preserv'd a grave majestic state;
At spur or switch no more he skipt,
Or mended pace, than Spaniard whipt;
And yet so fiery he would bound,
As if he griev'd to touch the ground,
That Cæsar's horse, who, as fame goes,
Had corns upon his feet and toes,
Was not by half so tender hooft,
Nor trod upon the ground so soft.
HUDIBRAS.

Nomood-out of a Virginia

N my last Lounger, I exhibited a

knight and squire. But I could not find room, even in a corner of the piece, to introduce the picture of that prancing palfrey, which makes so gallant a shew in their adventures. This omission it is now my business to supply. GOLDSMITH assures us that in an old romance, a certain knight-errant and his horse contracted an intimate friendship. The horse most usually bore the knight, but, in

cases of extraordinary dispatch, the knight returned the favour, and carried his horse. I am determined to rival this redoubtable cavalier, and, as the reader will perceive in the sequel, have as much strength as he to support a steed.

But

BUTLER, in a poem, which will not soon be forgotten by cavaliers, has very minutely described the points of that miserable jade which bore Sir Samuel Luke to the civil wars. The wit of CERVANTES has immortalized Rozinante, and in the poetical journal of the gay Charles Cotton he has not omitted to record the excellences of a certain creature, though not a zebra, which bore him over the mountains of Wales. neither the author of Hudibras, nor the biographer of Don Quixote, nor the burlesquer of Virgil has surpassed in picturesque description our accurate advertiser from Virginia. As in the most delightful of romances, all our attention is awakened by the titles of its chapters, "The adventure of the windmill," "The stupendous combat with the sheep," "The parliament of death," and "The encounter with the lions," so, we doubt not, after ages will peruse, with a more than ordinary degree of curiosity and rapture, that section of this enchanting history, which is intitled,

A description of the horse, saddle, and bridle. His strutting ribs on both sides shew'd Like furrows he himself had plough'd. A