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verfal benevolence amidft his happy do- 

 meftics, enjoys the very anticipation of his 

 wiilies in the cheerful fervices of a long 

 lift of old and faithful dependents. 



A contraft in charadler fo exceedingly 

 common, that it may be found in almoft 

 every parifli in the kingdom, is perhaps 

 well worthy the attention of thofe who 

 may be at all interefted in the defcription, 

 or their different effects. The conftant ill 

 ufage and violent abufe of horfes, either 

 ti7niiU vicious, or rfractory, under the hands 

 of the operator, is a matter of fufficient 

 notoriety to every m»an who has had occafion 

 to fuperintend their pracflice ; fuch cruelties 

 require not to be fought after in remote cor- 

 ners by fcrutinizing curiofity, they m.eet the 

 eye of the Traveller daily in the moft 

 public fituations. No judicious obferver, no 

 old groom or young fmith, need be reminded 

 what an infinity cf fine and valuable horfes 

 go through a tedious talk of mifery in re- 

 peated bleedings, mercurial purges, roivels, 

 and courfe of alteratives, for defedls or 

 difeafes in the eyes, originating only in the 

 cruel hand and heavy hamm.er of the Smith, 



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