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by a want of it. Horses are in their very 

 nature and disposition so formed for motion, 

 that they become dull, heavy, and un- 

 healthy without it ; of this nothing can af-> 

 ford greater demonstration than the pleasure 

 they display in every action, when brought 

 from the dark recess of a gloomy stable to t"^ 

 perfect enjoyment of light, air, and exercise. 

 The natural sweetness of the external air is so 

 happily superior to the stagnate impurity of 

 the stable, that most horses instantly exult 

 in the change, and by a variety of ways con- 

 vince you of the preference. 



Survey a spirited horse with the eye of at- 

 tention, and observe the astonishing differ- 

 ence before and after his liberation from the 

 manger, to which he is sometimes, under 

 the influenceof strange mismanagement, hal- 

 tered for days together without intermission. 

 In the stable you perceive him dejectedy spi- 

 ritless, and almost inanimate, without the 

 least seeming courage or activity in his com- 

 position ; but when brought into action he 

 instantly assumes another appearance, and in- 

 dicates, by bodily exultation and exertion, the 

 ^absolute salubrity and necessity of what the 



