380 ROAD HORSE S, 



every particular piirpofe, dilatorily infinu- 

 ate to a jury, ** that a horfe fliould continue 

 found for a certain number of days, weeks ^ 

 or months, after the purchafe;'' and fix upon 

 a ftipulated fum for what he has condefcended 

 to term '* a sound price;'* afcertain'.ng 

 fuch opinion an invariable criterion for all 

 future dccifions in Weflminfter Hall : or a 

 worthy Baron upon another, ** that a man 

 may lawjully corred: his wife with a flick 

 no bigger than his '* thumb." But how- 

 ever accurate fuch calculations may have been 

 made by the very high and refpecflable au- 

 thorities I allude tOi they cannot be more 

 i^KL^ from cafual exceptions, than the great 

 infinity of rules where exceptions are al- 

 ways admitted. 



However, as I confefs myfelf one of thofe 

 never implicitly bound merely by matter of 

 cpinio?!, with an utter avcrlion to difpofing of 

 horfcs in Wcilminller Hall, and experimenr 

 tally convinced how very fuddenly horfes fall 

 lame without a viiible caule ; as well as how 

 frequently they arc attacked with acute difeafe 

 and rapidly (T^r/rr/^^Yj^f' without any particular 

 reafDn to be cclleded even from dissec- 



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