I40 SHOEING. 



and re-echoed from fervant to f mi thy and 

 fniith to fervant ; while the poor animal 

 becomes the fabjed: of paffive obedience; 

 for whether well or illjkod, pricked or lamed y 

 is a matter of indifference to all parties ex- 

 cept the owner, who being thus acknow- 

 ledged fo defpicable a character, no one feels 

 for his difqiiietude or misfortunes, but ex- 

 ultingly exclaims, that what's too had for 

 another is too good for him. 



Such characters as thefe are not the pro- 

 lific effed: of a fertile imagination, but ex- 

 ad: pidures of ohjeBs the produce of every 

 foil. No gratification of ambition, no per- 

 fonal oftentation, can be indulged in the 

 prefent difcrimination, by arraigning the 

 difgraceful want of liberality in others, or 

 vainly endeavouring to extol my own : it 

 is, however, matter of the mofl unfuUied 

 exultation, that fuch accufation has never 

 been known to reach the hofpitable hall 

 of a Sportsman's Habitation ; their 

 univerfally admitted generofity, calculating 

 upon the principle of felf-prefervation, 

 ftands much more in need of the curb 

 than the fpur^ the general tenor of every 



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