LETTER XVII 



DISADVANTAGES OF CLIPPING — TREATMENT — COMPARA- 

 TIVE EXPENSE OF SUMMERING IN THE HOUSE AND 

 AT GRASS — FIRING 



REWARD sweetens labour." This is a 

 proverb almost as old as Time, and it 

 speaks the language of Truth. I have 

 received so many flattering testimonies 

 to the benefits derived from my system of summering 

 the hunter, that I sit down again to the task with 

 renewed vigour. One individual, however (perhaps 

 of the description of persons who would not beheve 

 though one arose from the dead), says he cannot 

 afford to summer his hunters in the house. I flattered 

 myself I had succeeded in making it appear, that, in 

 the end, it were by far the cheaper way of keeping 

 them ; for, independently of the fact, that four horses 

 so summered will do the work of five summered in the 

 fields, should it be a man's object (as the term is) 

 to keep his money together in his stable, the fascinating 

 power of high and blooming condition, with firm 

 flesh and prominent muscle, will alone effect it — 

 for that will always command customers. For my 

 own part, I can safely assert, that almost all the good 

 luck I have had with my horses has been the result 



