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his proceedings accordingly : horses are never 

 so perfectly at ease as in their ozm stablei^^ 

 which they should attain with all possible 

 convenience. There are numbers who (with- 

 put at all adverting to the length of the chase, 

 or their distance from home,) may be con- 

 stantly pbserved eagerly enquiring the nearest 

 xvay to the iirst house of public accommo- 

 dation, making what converts they can by 

 example ; where, without a reference to con- 

 tingencies, horses in such state are rashly 

 consigned to the unsuUitd care and incessant 

 attention tp the immaculate ostler, (if 

 the premises are enabled to produce one) 

 when they are ordered to be '' well cleaned," 

 '' properly fed,*' and "sufficiently watered." 

 This important trust (for such it certainly is, 

 wlien thoroughly investigated) is thus dele- 

 gated to an inferior power, that is perhaps in 

 five minqtes unavoida.bly compelled to aban-v 

 don it, and accept of a second and third, which 

 may be no more in his. povver to execute. 

 Thus the commission is going on, while the 

 happy inadvertent owners are gratifying their 

 appetites and drowning their cares in all tlie 

 luxuries of the mansion ; induloino^ their va« 

 ^ity in a recital of their personal exploits, anc^ 



