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an alternate description of the difficulties 

 they had surmounted in the severities of tiie 

 chase. 



To those in the laudable habits of a dif- 

 ferent practice, animadversion upon the dan- 

 ger becomes superfluous ; but as there are 

 those, whom it is impossible to convince of 

 their errors till repentance comes too late, it 

 may prove no unseasonable admonition to 

 declare, from this kind of treatment only, I 

 have been witness to repeated im fauces where 

 the horses have never been brought again 

 out of the stable, but in woeful procession to 

 the Collar Makers^ who had purchased their 

 hides. 



The stripping of a horse to dress him in a 

 comfortless stable, with every pore of the 

 frame relaxed to its utmost extension, and 

 the additional happij 'introduction of a pail of 

 COLD WATER (as most applicable to the 

 convenience of the ostler or his dcpufy\ has 

 been the destruction of more horses in dilfe- 

 rent ways, than ever suffered by the longest 

 and most terrible runs when rode with dis- 

 4:retion. So much has been repeatedly in- 



