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only inflantly wafhed with warm water, but 

 in fo doing, the neceffary infped:ion made, 

 whether the moft trifling injuries have been 

 fuftained by over-reaches, ftubs, or in lace- 

 rations between hair and hoof; while this is 

 doing, a portion of hay is thrown before 

 him, and immediately after a pail of water* 

 ilightly warm, to allay the violent thirft aI-» 

 ways occalioned by long and fevere chaces. 

 The ufual ceremony of dreffing, feeding, oiU 

 ing, flopping, and other minutiae of the fta- 

 ble is then gone through ; too fyftematically 

 and generally underllood to require a fingle 

 line in explanation. 



A perfeverance in this rigidity of ftable 

 difciplinc and attention, unbiaffed by the 

 perfuaiion or example of others, will always 

 infure you the fuperiority of condition in 

 the field ; under the pleafing fenfation of 

 your horfc being at home, and completely 

 taken care of; when others, lefs con- 

 fiderate, or lefs humane, are commencing a 

 wretched journey of ten, fifteen, or twenty 

 miles in a dreary winter's evening ; or 

 what is nearly upon a parallel of inconfift- 

 ency, permit them to remain in a ftrangc 



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