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the parties, lofes fielli, becomes dull and heavy 

 in the ftable, languid in acftion, fickly in coat, 

 and foul in excrement, doomed to a courfe of 

 purgatives y then diuretics-, and, laftly, a tedious 

 adminiftration of alteratives, as iickly and 

 unfound ! And all for what ? — becaufe the poor 

 emaciated animal, being deftitute of the powers 

 of fpeech, could not better inform his perfe- 

 cutors, than by his emphatical and miiinter- 

 preted looks, that his hay was muflyy and con- 

 fequently laying the foundation of many dif- 

 orders. For, being thus deprived of more than 

 half his fupport, the trifling quantity he did 

 take (being againft the difpofition of nature 

 ' and appetite) afforded little nutrim.ent; nor of 

 courfe could, when . fourteen pounds of. hay 

 only had perhaps pafied the inteflinal canal in 

 four days, inftead of fifty- fix; the accuftomed 

 and proper proportion being rated at fourteen 

 pounds for twenty-four hours, where horfes are 

 regularly corn-fed. To bring this defecfr in the 

 quality and quantity of this part of the alime?it 

 home to every comprehenfion, let any reader 

 conceive the idea (or try the experiment) of 

 fitting downv/ithan excellent appetite (after a 

 moft excellent chafe) to a beef ileak nearly 

 approaching piitrefacii-.n, with no fauce but 



hwiger. 



