14 BREEDING. 



aimtial increase to a certainty ; tlie same un- 

 accountable prejudice that prompts them to 

 commence breeders, without a consistent 

 qualification in horse or inare, influenc^es 

 them also to reserve a colt of such breed to 

 perform the office of Stallion, in the 

 vicinity of their own residence, that the ab- 

 surdity begun by themselves may be perse- 

 vered in by others: this prodigy, with all his 

 imperfections, is permitted to cover gra- 

 tis, or for a trifling pecuniary consideration 

 to the servant (as a complete gratification of 

 the owner's ambition in breeding) ! and, 

 proving a local convenience, is readily em- 

 braced by the inactive classes before described^ 

 while others of more prudence , spirit, emula-- 

 Hon, or consistency of conduct, will rather 

 send a mare fifty miles, and encounter 

 any consequent expense to obtain a horse 

 whose sliape, make, bone, strength, and 

 action are calculated to correspond with the 

 dam, promising to produce a colt or filly, 

 adequate in figure and vahie to the purpose 

 originally intended* 



Notwithstanding these necessary precau- 

 tions, the long standing adage of there be^* 



