Vulgar words in Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 12, 1841 (Page 1)
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"The horse is a noble animal," as a gentleman once wittily observed, when he found himself, for the first time in his life, in a position to make love; and we beg leave to repeat the remark--"the horse is a noble animal," whether we consider him in his usefulness or in his beauty; whether caparisoned in the _chamfrein_ and _demi-peake_ of the chivalry of olden times, or scarcely fettered and surmounted by the snaffle and hog-skin of the present; whether he excites our envy when bounding over the sandy deserts of Arabia, or awakens our sympathies when drawing sand from Hampstead and the parts adjacent; whether we see him as romance pictures him, foaming in the lists, or bearing, "through flood and field," the brave, the beautiful, and the benighted; or, as we know him in reality, the companion of our pleasures, the slave of our necessities, the dislocator of our necks, or one of the performers at our funeral; whether--but we are not drawing a "bill in Chancery."