Last night I was afraid Dr. Johnson was beginning to faint in his resolution; for he said, 'If we must ride much, we shall not go; and there's an end on't.'

You are a delicate Londoner;you are a maccaroni; you can't ride.'

Sir, I shall ride better than you.

In some places, the rock is very narrow; and on each side there is a sea deep enough for a man of war to ride in; so that it is somewhat horrid to move along.

The title of the first edition of his lordship's very useful book was, in simple terms, A Method of breaking Horses and teaching Soldiers to ride.

' We might have taken a chaise to Fort Augustus, but, had we not hired horses at Inverness, we should not have found them afterwards: so we resolved to begin here to ride.

As Dr. Johnson was a great weight, the two guides agreed that he should ride the horses alternately.

It grew dusky; and we had a very tedious ride for what was called five miles; but I am sure would measure ten.

I however continued to ride by him, finding he wished I should do so.

This shewed a kind of fretful impatience; nor was it to be wondered at, considering our disagreeable ride.

he exclaimed; "I will get the man to let me ride, and then no one will dare disturb me.

The ride to Philadelphia was not far.

He learned to milk the cows, to drive the plow, to ride the most fractious horses, and to break the fiery young colts; he knew precisely how to look after the horses, cattle, pigs, sheep, fowls, and everything at night and in the morning.

Mrs. Warmore noticed Tom, and bowed to him, inviting him to enter the carriage and ride with them,an invitation which, as he expressed to himself, he would not have accepted for seventeen thousand million dollars.

"I have had a pretty rapid ride and a bad shock, but that is all.

"My sister, and my sister's child, Myself, and children three, Will fill the chaise; so you must ride On horseback after we."

John Gilpin at his horse's side Seized fast the flowing mane, And up he got, in haste to ride, But soon came down again;

From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride.

The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain; Whom in a trice he tried to stop, By catching at his rein.

And when he next doth ride abroad.

The Farmer's Boy 9 The Milkmaid 10 Hey-Diddle-Diddle and Baby Bunting 11 A Frog He Would a-Wooing Go 12 The Fox Jumps over the Parson's Gate 13 Come Lasses,and Lads 14 Ride a Cock Horse to Banbury Cross, &c. 15 Mrs. Mary Blaize 16

A mighty dainty lady, dressed in green, and sweet and pale, And she rode an all-cream pony with an Arab head and tail. "Says she to him, 'Young gentleman, to you I'd be beholden If you'd ride along to Fairyland this night beside o' me; There's a fox that eats our chickensthem that lays the eggs that's golden

In the course of delirious dreams she finds herself in the "Tell-Tale Forest" (which threatens to recall The Palace of Truth), and here all the picturesque phrases which she has been in the childish habit of misinterpreting in their literal sense"a bee in the bonnet," to "ride hobbies," "to play ducks and drakes," "to pay the piper," and so forthare realised in human or animal form.

Den dey git on you an some nights dey like to ride you to death.

Den dey ride you back home an into your bed.