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messed at different times of three horses incor- 

 rigibly restive, and as much subject to that 

 dangerous failure of starting as any horses in 

 the universe, without exception. These were 

 separately purchased with a perfect knowledge 

 of their defects, and at a price proportioned 

 to their deficiencies ; each of the owners and 

 their servants considerino; themselves in such 

 perpetual danger, that it was determined to 

 afford no farther chance of a fracture for the 

 Surgeon or a survey for the Coroner, but to 

 dispose of them at all events as incurable. 

 The horses purchased under such accumu- 

 lation ©f disadvantages, without arrogating 

 to myself a superiority in horsemanship, or 

 courage, I reduced by a patient perseverance, 

 in the plan I have already laid dovrn [as 

 irtfaUibk), to the most pliable and best con- 

 ditioned horses I have ever had in possession ; 

 using no other correction of severity ^tith 

 either ^vhip or spur, than just sufncient to let 

 them be convinced I did not practise hiiit^i 

 from the nioti%'e oi pusillaniinity, but to at'-- 

 ford them the alternative of submittinif to 

 treatment much more adapted to their ov/ii- 

 ease aud safetv- 



