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faithful services of one, and the protection 

 of the other. 



Great inconveniences arise from this un-* 

 Just and severe method of treating horses in 

 general, where, from blov/s indiscriminately 

 dealt in passion, the bones of the head, or 

 the eyes are irreparably injured by the ser- 

 vant, and the real cause never truly known 

 to the master ; several instances having oc- 

 curred within my own knowledge, of exfo- 

 liations from the jaw-bones, (with and with- 

 out a dislodgmt'nt of teeth) some of which; 

 I discovered upon inspecting what the own- 

 ers imao;ined to be a disease or canker in the* 

 mouth, and not till an examination of the 

 bones of others after death ; the greater part 

 or all ofwhicli, I have no doubt, were pro- 

 duced by blows with weapons very little cal- 

 culated for rods of. correction. 



That there can be no doubt of horses sus- 

 t^^ining great injuries by these means, I have 

 every reason to believe, from numbers I 

 have seen fall instantly to the ground, upon 

 receiving a blow seemingly slight and of no 

 great force imiualiately behind the ear ; 



