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it becomes necessary to remark, that the ex- 

 treme degree of perfection, and high condi- 

 tion I have hitherto recommended, and al- 

 lude to in my future instructions for stable 

 management, and by no means intended to 

 be generally extended to horses in common 

 use with HARRIERS ; whose offices of service 

 are so exceedingly different to the very strong 

 and severe chases with stag or fox, that 

 they may naturally be understood to be al- 

 ways suflFiciently prepared with a very inferior 

 treatment. 



Lest such gentlemen, who from situation, 

 inclination, advanced age, or bodily debiUta- 

 tion, are attached to the frigidity of hare 

 HUNTING, should feel the dignity of their 

 pack, and the splendor of their retinue, de- 

 graded by what they may erroneously con- 

 ceive an oblique insinuation of contempt ; I 

 must beg to submit to the criterion of their 

 own decision, the almost incredible difference 

 between the exertions and duration of the 

 two. Horses that become the necessary ap- 

 pendage to harriers, undergo such sudden 

 changes in their sport, not more in the fre- 

 quent dull and tedious attendance upon the 



