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have been taken to relieve, all the informa- 

 tion must be derived from interrogatories 

 to the servant; who is in general possessed 

 of all the mystery, and the master (how- 

 ever valuable the horse) is frequently found 

 to know little or nothing at all of the matter. 

 The groom's judgment is in general so per- 

 fectly infallible, that it would be absolute 

 presumption in his employer to inquire into 

 the cause of complaint or method of cure ; 

 yet upon accurate investigation of these ex-- 

 tensive abilities, we find very slender cause 

 for the unlimited confidence and implicit 

 opinion of the master. If niquiry is made 

 whether the horse has been bled, and we are 

 answered he has, we are already arrived at 

 the ultimatum of information; for \\h2it quan- 

 tity was taken away, or what quality it was 

 WHEN COLD, must remain in its former ob- 

 scurity ; one general answer suffices for every 

 question ; and with a blush of conscious stupid 

 dity, we are told the horse was " bled on the 

 dunghill:' By this specimen of enlightened 

 information, every additional suggestion may 

 be fairly supposed equally conclusive and sa-> 

 tisfactory. 



