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buying, management and using it, be it for what 

 purpose it may. 



But to return to the jobbing of hunters, which 

 is sometimes done by masters or managers of fox- 

 hounds ; its advantages and disadvantages depend 

 so much on circumstances, that it is impossible to 

 decide which in a general way preponderate. If 

 we are well acquainted with the habits, judgment, 

 mode of riding, and management of any given 

 person, it would be no difficult task to recommend 

 the best mode for him, that is, under ordinary cir- 

 cumstances ; if a man is careless about the ma- 

 nagement of his horses, is too indolent to attend 

 to them, or has not good judgment in his manage- 

 ment, he has but three plans to adopt, by which 

 he has any chance of having his stud fit to go; he 

 must either engage a first-rate stud-groom and 

 keep his horses at home, send them to a hunting 

 stable, or job them. To such a person, I should 

 be tempted to recommend the latter, for he would 

 then be sure of always having a given number 

 of horses ready and fit to meet hounds, which 

 might not be the case on either of the former 

 plans ; but when a man engages to keep you a 

 certain number of horses for your use he will, of 

 course, use every exertion to place trusty men 

 about them, and to see that they do their duty ; 

 a respectable man as a stud -groom, will probably 

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