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his proceedings accordingly ; horfes are never 

 fo perfedly at eafe as in their own ftables^ 

 which they ihould attain with all poflible 

 convenience. There are numbers who (with- 

 out at all adverting to the length of the cjiace, 

 or their diftance from home,) may be con-- 

 ftantfy obferved eagerly inquiring the nearejl 

 ivay to the firft houfe of public accommo- 

 dation, making what converts they can by 

 example; where, without a reference to con- 

 tingencies, horfes in fuch flate are rafhly 

 configned to the unfuUied care and inctjfarit 

 attention of the immaculate ostler, (if 

 the premifes are enabled to produce one) 

 when they are ordered to be *' well cleaned," 

 ** properly fed,'* and ** fufficiently watered/' 

 This important truft (for fuch it certainly is, 

 when thoroughly inveftigated) is thus dele- 

 gated to an inferior power, that is perhaps in 

 five minutes unavoidably compelled to aban- 

 don it, and accept of difeco7id or third, which 

 may be no more in his power to execute. 

 Thus the commiffion is going on, while the 

 happy inadvertent owners are gratifying their 

 appetites and drowning their cares in all the 

 luxuries of the manfion; indulging their va- 

 i)ity in a recital of their perfonal exploits, and 



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