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RIDING THE GREAT HORSE.—When a soldier in some parts abroad, particularly in Prussia, commits an offence, the punishment allotted the culprit is not unfreuently [sic] called “Riding the Great Horse!” But that animal must be great indeed, whose inside is supposed to contain a body of five hundred men, all armed cap-a-pee, and eager for the fray; yet such is the gigantic status of the Trojan Horse, now exhibited at Astley’s, in the grand spectacle of the Siege of Troy, that this four-footed Colossus is nightly seen to discharge a little army of men from the regions of its belly, to the surprise and admiration of a still greater army of persons, who, every evening, resort to the Amphitheatre of Arts, Westminster-bridge.
