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former tone and elailicity ; while, en the con- 

 trary, by turning i'avalids out too foon to open 

 pafture (or with other horfes), after fevere in- 

 juries of this kind, they often, forgetting (or 

 not confcious of) their late deficiencies, become 

 full of adtion and play, upon obtaining their 

 liberty, and are not unfrequently returned to 

 the ftable in a ivorfe Jlate than at the origin of 

 complaint. 



Previous to the conclufion of fuch com.pli- 

 cated remarks as have been introduced for the 

 purport of general information (calculated in 

 refpedl to minute particulars ^ much more for 

 the totally uninformed than the very many 

 fportfmen who, poiTeffing a portion of experi- 

 ence, ftand in need of no inftrudlion), it be- 

 comes a matter of indifpenfible neceffity to add 

 a few words upon the great danger (in fad: 

 cruelty) of adhering clofely to fome parts of 

 ancient practice, that have no one plea but 

 their antiquity, and the invincible obftinacy of 

 their advocates, to recommend them. 



Of this clafs none ftand in a more confpicu- 

 ous or ridiculous point of view than thofewho, 



I have 



