^6 OBJervations on Horfes^ 



open air, unlefs the night after a hard chacC t 

 I allow them two or three acres of pafture 

 to cool their bellies, and ftretch their limbs, 

 with a warm hovel to flielter them from a 

 ftorm, a rack, and manger, with proper 

 provilions to keep them in heart, and a frefh 

 fjpring of water in the fame iield, to quench 

 their thiril. I have known a gelding, with 

 this regimen, to be found, frefh, and in 

 full vigour, after ten years the hardefl: hunt- 

 ing ; and I dare promife him that fhall try< 

 to find fuch a one as far beyond the fine- 

 cloathed, thin-fkinned Courfer, cateris 

 paribus, as a rough Plowman is fitter for 

 bufinefs than a foft-handed Beau. 



Huntsman, 



