fat: when killed he exhibited a spare-rib well 

 covered, while the horses exhibited only the usual 

 number, and those not covered at all. The 

 poultry-fancier was brought back, when, out of 

 pure devilry, he brought also back a lot of Malay 

 fowls in addition to his old stock, and turned 

 them down before master's face : notwithstanding 



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this, the horses soon showed who had the care of 

 them. 



Cart-horses (a description of animal that, among 

 most other of a domestic kind, I have had the 

 pleasure of entertaining at rack and manger) I 

 always allowed two bushels of oats per week, 

 which, if the master achieves that rather difficult 

 task of making them do a fair day's work, is not 

 too much, with chaff (and when the work is hard, 

 beans), which they take as a kind of whet to 

 their appetites for hay (as some persons do oysters 

 before dinner); of hay, cart-horses will consume 

 half a truss in the twenty-four hours, and, if the 

 carters are not well watched, even more: for 

 nothing short of absolute exhaustion of the masti- 

 cating powers ever yet convinced a carter that he 

 or his horse had enough, 



We now come to the kind of horse I will sup- 

 pose the reader about to keep, namely, a mo- 

 derate-sized one, for moderate work, in harness, 

 or for the saddle. For such a horse, four quarterns 



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