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This done, let a moderate feed of the best 

 corn your local granary affords, be thrown 

 into the manger, and the door of the stable 

 immediately closed. Having thus conscien- 

 tiously discharged the incumbent office of 

 grateful protection, embrace the few minutes 

 you have to spare, in obtaining for yourself 

 what little refreshment nature stands in need 

 of. Let no inducement whatever from more 

 unthinking companions attract your atten- 

 tion from the state of your horse to the cir- 

 culation of the bottle ; if once you suffer 

 your sober judgment to relax from what 

 should be tlie invariable maxim of your per- 

 severance, you know not where the indiscre- 

 tion ends ; one single step of deviation from 

 the line of prudence and propriety frequently 

 introduces a thousand more to promote con- 

 trition. 



Upon ample demonstration, that every 

 horse, supported in a domestic style, has as 

 fervent an attachment to his own stall as his 

 master to his own bed, and will most cheer- 

 fully encounter (if necessary) much addi-r 

 tional fatigue to attain it ; there is no doubt 

 but it is highly commeuduble to bridle him 



