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confufion of the preacher, I proceed to his 

 additional mortification in the fame town a 

 fhort time after ; where riding up to the door 

 of his draper upon a favorite horfe, and the 

 horfe very little ufed to the hurry of large 

 towns, inftantly ftarted at fome objed: with- 

 in or without, when the little man, in his 

 zvan7ith, giving him a petulant blow upon 

 the head, brought both horfe and rider to 

 the ground in the prefence of twenty inha- 

 bitants, wdio having his former dilemma 

 frefli in their memories, it doubly infured him 

 the appendage of *' A little time ye fhall fee 

 me, and a little tim.e ye fhall not ;" which 

 honourable diftincTiion will, in all probability, 

 accompany him to the grave, he being at 

 prefent only in the prime of life. 



From fuch remarks as I thought abfolutely 

 necefiary to expofe the cruelty of ill ufing 

 horfes, and demonftrate my invariable opi- 

 nion, that violence and unjuft feverity, nine 

 times out of ten, injures their tempers and 

 confirms their vices ; 1 come to fuch proof as 

 may tend not only to obtain converts to that 

 opinion y but to introduce a juftification of my 

 own; viz. that horfes of mild tempers and 

 I 4 pliable 



