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temporary invalids or confirmed valetudi- 

 narians ; from living or rather existing in a 

 scene of almost total darkness, tliey approach 

 the light with reluctance, and every new 

 object with additional apprehension They 

 walk, or rather totter out of the stable in a 

 state of debiUtation and stiffness of the extre- 

 mities, as if threatened with universal lame- 

 ness. The legs are swelled from the knees 

 and hocks downwards, to the utmost expan- 

 sion of the integument ; which, with the dry 

 and contracted state of the narroxv-heehd hoof, 

 bears no ill affinity to the overloaded shoe of 

 AN OPULENT ALDERMAN, whcu emerging 

 from the excruciating admonitions of a gouty 

 monitor. Upon more accurate inspection, 

 we find the list of happy effects still increased 

 with those usual concomitants, inveterate 

 cracks, running thrush, very frequently ac- 

 companied by a husky short cough, or asth- 

 matic diflficulty of respiration, in gradual 

 progression to a broken wind ; and the long 

 list of inferior et ceteras, that constitute the 

 invariable advantages of stable discipline, di- 

 rectly contrary to every established rule that 

 can be laid down for the promotion of ease, 



HEALTH, and INVIGORATION. 



