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faithful fervices of one and the protection 

 of the other. 



Great inconveniencies arife from this un- 

 juft and fevere method of treating horfes in 

 general, where from blows indifcriminately 

 dealt in paffion, the bones of the head, or 

 the eyes, are irreparably injured by the fer- 

 vant, and the real caufe never truly known 

 to the mafter ; feveral inftances having oc- 

 curred within my own knowledge, of exfo- 

 liations from the jaw bones, (wdth and with- 

 out a diflodgement of teeth) fome of which 

 I difcovered upon infpe^ling what the owners 

 imagined to be a difeafe or canker in the 

 mouth, and not till an examination of the 

 bones of others after death ; the greater part 

 or all of which, I have no doubt, were pro- 

 duced by blows with w^eapons very little cal- 

 <:ulated for rods of corrediion. 



That there can be no doubt of horfes fuf- 

 taining great injuries by thefe means, I have 

 every reafon to believe, from numbers I 

 have feen fall injiantly to the ground, upon 

 receiving a blow feemingly flight and of no 

 great force immediately behind the ear : 

 I 3 among 



