LETTER IV 



STABLE MANAGEMENT — CASE OF FERRYMAN 



HORSES are to be purchased in all places 

 and at all times, but condition is not 

 to be purchased with them ; for which 

 reason, he who wants to increase his 

 stud should always buy his horses in 

 the spring of the year, having then the summer before 

 him, in the course of which, if the animal is a sound 

 one, his condition can be accomplished. Upon this 

 principle I looked into Tattersall's some years since 

 in the month of May, when I perceived a strong, cross- 

 boned looking horse, with some good hunting shape 

 about him, " going " at 50/,, and before I could get 

 around him to ken him over, he was " gone." Finding 

 he was purchased by a dealer, I gave him five pounds 

 for his bargain, and took him away with me. Soon 

 after my arrival at home I met with a person who 

 knew him, and who informed me that he was got by 

 Joe Andrews, and was a capital fencer, but that he 

 could not be kept in condition in the stable ; that his 

 legs always filled after work ; and, in short, to use 

 his own emphatical words, he looked like a hunted 

 devil in the winter. 



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