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of time, patience, and danger^ that horfes 

 the moft perverfci obftinate, and refraftory, 

 are to be fubdued and rendered completely 

 tradable, with much more certainty, huma- 

 nity, propriety, and expedition, than by thofe 

 unjuftifiable ads of violence fo repeatedly 

 mentioned and accurately explained. 



Convinced of this fad: by the rnofl: atten- 

 tive obfervation, my mind is too fcrupuloufly 

 formed to adirit of an alteration in opinion; 

 and I cannot indulge the leaft doubt but the 

 fubjed will undergo in future a nicer decifion^ 

 by thofe gentlemen whofe opportunities have 

 hot been fufficiently num.erous to afcertain the 

 cfFed of the different mode of treatment upon 

 different fubjeds to a critical degree of dif- 

 tindion ; venturing alfo an additional belief, 

 in which I flatter myfeif moft obfervers will 

 coincide, that horfes originally rejlijf or ad- 

 dided to fudden Jlarting^ are continually ha- 

 bituated in their vices by repeated ill ufage of 

 fervants, and the perpetual transfer from one 

 owner to another^ under all the difadvantage, 

 prejudice, and refentment inflided upon a 

 bad name, without the lucky chance of once 



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