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continuance, or in their daily work at home, 

 and refident in their own flables, the fame 

 care and attention are equally neceffary ; I 

 have ever (feelingly) found, servants at 

 home require the fame circumfpedtion and 

 fuperintendance as Ostlers abroad : and 

 happy that man, if one there is, w^ho through 

 life has had Vvcll-founded reafon to be of a 

 different opinion ; if fo, he is entitled to my 

 beft congratulations for poffeffing fo valua- 

 ble a novelty. 



Horfes of this defcription have every claim 

 with others to the fame regularity of liable 

 difcipline ; they fhould be at all times as 

 equally prepared for a journey, as their fu- 

 periors for the chace ; the faddle has as great 

 a right to be complete, and fit eafy, and 

 the fhoes to be as firm as the firft hunter 

 in the kingdom. They are at all times en- 

 titled to fubftantial drefiing, good foft water, 

 and proper exercife ; their legs and heels 

 to be well wafhed from dirt, and rubbed 

 dry, in the winter feafon ; their feet to be 

 picked, flopped, and hoofs oiled, at all fea- 

 fons of the year ; and their hay and corn as 



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