60 BREEDING. 



exertions in drawing, or long and very speedy 

 journeys taken to promote abortion, and 

 those without the least effect ; to corrobo- 

 rate which, the introduction of one only be- 

 comes at all necessary, as it is too well au- 

 thenticated to admit a doubt of its certainty- 

 Some few years since, Sulphur, a well- 

 known running horse of the Duke of Cum- 

 berland'8, having leaped the paddock paling, 

 of an immense height, in Windsor Park, co- 

 vered a hunting mare of Mr. Jephs's (then 

 resident at Sandpit Gate) in the sight of 

 many labourers, who reported the occur- 

 rence. As the hunting season approached 

 she was perceptibly in foal ; this was what 

 he by no means wished, and was so much 

 hurt at the awkwardness of the circumstance, 

 that he continued to hunt her incessantly, 

 covering the strongest leaps and taking the 

 deepest ground to obtain abortion. 



The event, however, sufficiently proved 

 the foil)/ (not to add cruelty or presumption) 

 of opposing nature in her nicest operations ; 

 for all the severity so inconsiderately put in 

 practice, never in the least hurt the mare ox 



