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ger till they feel it) {q.\. phyftc at defiance ; and 

 uever fubmit to acknowledge its utility, till 

 the total lofs of one horfe and the irreparable 

 injury to another, demonftrate the abfurdity 

 of their ill-founded objedlions ; compuliively 

 adding them in rotation to the annually in- 

 creafing lift of converts to a rational fylle- 

 fnatic mode of llabularian improvement. 



Such bbftinate non-compliance with the 

 juftified didlates of fafety refulting from ex- 

 perience, can arife only from a total want of 

 thought, or knowledge of the animal oeccno- 

 my ; by which every fecretion^ evacuation^ 

 motion and labour is regulated, oradlion con- 

 trouled. From the recurring force of this 

 reflecftion, let every Sportsman whofe mind 

 is at all opera to the rays of refinem.ent, (and 

 who has not, like Tony Lumpkin, imbibed 

 his entire ftock of penetration from the apron^ 

 ftring of a Mrs. Hardcajiky conduding his 

 w^hole affairs by **the rule of Thumb,") 

 confider the abfolute neceflity of beitowing 

 fome little occafional attention to the indica- 

 tions of nature ; the dired: procefs of ali- 

 ment and digeflion, w^ith its fublequent lource 

 oi nutrition ; enabling himfelf to afcertain (at 

 leaft with fome degree of precifion) the ftate 



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