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coKfasion of the preacher, I proceed to his 

 additional mortification in the same town a 

 short time after ; where, riding up to the door 

 of his draper upon a favouritt; horse, and the 

 horse very little used to the hurry of large 

 towns, instantly started at some object within 

 or without, when the little man, in his> 

 warmth^ g\y'ing him a petulant blow upon 

 the head, brought both horse and rider to 

 the ground in the presence of twenty inha- 

 bitants, who having his former dilemma 

 fresh in their memories, it doubly insured 

 him the appendage of '* A little time ye shall 

 see me, and a little time ye shall not;** which 

 honourable distinction will, in all proba- 

 bility, accompany him to tiie grave, he be- 

 ing at present only in the prime of life. 



From such remarks as I thought abso- 

 lutely necessary to expose the cruelty of ill- 

 using horses, and demonstrate my invariable 

 opinion, that violence and unjust severity, 

 nine times out of ten, injures their tempers 

 and confirms their vices, I come to such proof 

 as may tend not only to obtain converts to 

 that opinion, but to introduce ajustification 

 of my own; viz. that horses of mild tern- 



