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continuance, or in their daily work at home, 

 and resident in their own stables, the same 

 care and attention are equally necessary ; I 

 have ever (feelingly) found, servants at 

 home require the same circumspection and 

 superintendence as ostlers abroad ; and 

 happy that man, ii one there is, who througlt 

 life has had well-founded reason to be of a 

 different opinion ; if so he is entitled to my 

 best congratulations for possessing so valu- 

 able a novelty. 



Horses of tliis description have every claim 

 with others to the same* regularity of stable- 

 discipline ; they should be at all times as 

 equally prepared for a journey, as their su- 

 periors for the chase ; the saddle has as great 

 a right to be complete, and sit easy, and 

 the shoes to be as firm as tlie first hunter's 

 in the kingdom. They are at all times en- 

 titled to substantial dressing, good soft water, 

 and proper exercise ; their legs and heels 

 to be well washed from dirt, and rubbed 

 dry, in the winter season ; their feet to be 

 picked, stopped, and Itoofs oiled, at all sea- 

 sons of the year ; and their hay and corn as 



