4:^S SUPPLEMENT. 



most trifling variation, wliich has succeeded 

 so well, that a letter now lies before me from 

 the owner, wherein he says, ^ The horse has 

 ^ been walked out twice,- when he did not 

 ' appear the /east lame, and I hope he will be 

 ' soon enabled to take his journey to Wor- 



* kingham, tliere to profit by the winter's 

 ' run you have kindly provided for him. I 

 ^ am very glad to hear of the Supplement 



* you mentioned, and hope soon to see it 



* published. I think the cure of my own 



* horse an uncommon one.' 



As the introduction and illustration of cases 

 may not be perfectly applicable to the ex- 

 pectation of tho$e who wish to meet little 

 more than a dictatorial arrangenient of p'e- 

 scriptive matter, it will be perfectly in point, 

 not only to explain their utility, but the 

 cause of communication for general in- 

 ;5pection. 



Xhe public having so extensively honour- 

 ed the Stable Directory with jsuch decided 

 approbation, even in the infancy of its ap-^ 

 pearance, and before its theory could have 

 been universally reduced to practice, it must 



