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piirfuit leaving them totally exculpated from 

 the bare lufpicion of being included in the 

 '* beggarly defcription." 



Taking leave, therefore, of that part of 

 the fubjed: as can but ill accord with the 

 feelings of thofe who may become perfo- 

 nally affeded by fo faithful a reprefenta- 

 tion of their domeftic penury ; I beg per- 

 miffion to recommend for their delibera- 

 tive imiitatlon a part of m^y invariable prac- 

 tice for a feries of more than twenty years. 

 This has always been, to let the manual 

 operator (or journeyina?!^ whom I ever con- 

 fidered the 7naln fpring of the machine) 

 enjoy fome pecuniary compenfation, in ad- 

 dition to the profeffional emolument of 

 the mafter, not more from a confcientious 

 convidiion of its being greatly merited by 

 the trouble, care, and danger of (hoeing 

 high-fpirited and rcfradory horfes, than 

 experimental demonftration, that Genero- 

 sity, founded upon the bajis of equity ^ will 

 inevitably infure its own reward. This 

 is at leaft a leflbn I have every • right to 

 inculcate, when I can affirm with the ftridl- 

 eft veracity, I have never had a horfe Hif- 



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