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(and perhaps cold and uncomfortable) stable, 

 to be badly fed and worse looked after. But 

 let it be either one or the other, resulting con- 

 sequences are much the same ; the porous 

 system is affected in a greater or less degree, 

 the coat becomes rough and unhealthy, bear^ 

 ing the appearance of hide-bound, and the 

 perspirative matter thus compulsively re- 

 turned upon the circulation without absorp- 

 tion, must evidently soon appear to affect the 

 eyes, lungs, or glandular parts, to the certain 

 hazard of blindness, asthma, broken zoind, or 

 some one of the contingent ills so repeatedly 

 alluded to in various parts of this, as well as 

 our former volume. 



, Respecting the article of feeding, va- 

 rious opinions are entertained, and perhaps 

 no small number of those regulated by pe- 

 cuniary considerations ; it is, however, uni- 

 versally admitted, that hunters require 

 a more extraordinary support than many 

 horses of different denominations ; but the 

 particular reason why extra support becomes 

 so immediately necessary, is a matter 

 but little understood by those not much 

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