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pliable difpofitions may be brought to every 

 ftate of perfed:ion by gentle ufage correfpond- 

 ing with their own frame of mind j while, 

 on the contrary, the ferocity of the higheft 

 fpirited may be gradually fubdued by exer- 

 tions oi jleady authority and ferfcvering forti-^ 

 tude, blended with intervening adls of kind- 

 nefs and cccaiional encouragement, without 

 defcending to the moft unjullifiable ill ufage, 

 tending only to excite invincible prejudice 

 and perpetual oppofition. 



The proofs upon which fuch opinion is 

 incontrovertibly founded, conilitute an expe-^ 

 rience of twenty years, in which time I have 

 attentively anahzed the tempers of horfes, 

 and the pradlical principles of their breakers 

 with as much fervency as the profeffional 

 abilities and medical knovv^ledo;e of Countrv 

 Farriers^ fo fully and repeatedly explained in 

 different parts of the former Volume. There 

 is a certain analogy in the practice of both ; 

 and kill or cure may be adopted by each for 

 bis motto, without injury to either ; and with 

 much greater propriety than one of the fame 

 learned fraternity defined his employer's horfe 

 to be ''-fcfupcr eadera^^' worfe and worfe; or 



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