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tain the moft trifling injury under the hands 

 of the Smith, nor ever a horfe p/ated but 

 what proved a winner^ 



The trifling attention, the humane bene- 

 faftion of a coohng beverage to allay thirft 

 in the exceffive heat of fummer, or the 

 falutary interpofition of an invigorating cor- 

 dial to encounter the extreme feverity of 

 froft or fnow in winter, are offices of kind-^ 

 nefs that in their vifible effeds upon the 

 ha?id and hammer, infure, beyond a doubt, 

 the fafety of the horfe and the reputation 

 of the owner. The philanthropic influence 

 of ** doing as you would be done unto," 

 is repaid with the moft flattering interellj 

 die fame care and attention beflowed upon 

 the feet in flioeing, are extended in general 

 tendernefs to the fafety of the whole frame 

 upon all other profeffional occafions ; if 

 refradlory or vicious, he is foothed by kind- 

 nefs, not provoked by violoice ; in fhort, 

 whatever fatigue enfaes, w^hatever diflJiculty 

 occurs, the execution is cheer fuly com- 

 pleated, with a retro fpedive reference to 

 the perfevering hofpitality of the Master, 

 who living in an unvaried fcene of uni- 



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