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horse be required to draw a light chaise, without 

 much incumbrance, he maybe small, and the better 

 for being three parts blood. Where there is more 

 weight to contend against, you must choose a heavier 

 horse. Bear in mind that, as a rule, there must 

 always be weight to contend with weight. A heavy 

 animal, by merely throwing his bulk against the 

 collar, materially assists in moving his load, while 

 the lighter one, if over-weighted, has all to do by 

 muscular power, which soon becomes exhausted ; 

 for, in the latter case, the horse is continually strain- 

 ing to effect by violence, that which in the former is 

 accomplished by weight only. Otherwise, give each 

 horse his burthen in proportion to his weight, and the 

 blood-horse would kill the other in a very short time. 

 For the heavier loads, therefore, speed and breed 

 must be abandoned for weight ; and the horse must 

 have the round arched neck, large rotund baiTel (or 

 body) and rounded hind quarters. 



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Under this head much prejudice exists, and many 

 false notions prevail. One person supposes that if 

 he buys a horse when he is young, it must last him 

 so much the longer than if he had bought him at a 

 more advanced age. Others, again, imagine that 

 having purchased a young horse, they are not likely 

 to be serious losers by him, if they sell him again 

 while the mark remains in his mouth. This may be 

 all very well with those who have more horses than 

 they can possibly exercise, and which are, therefore, 

 unused to a day's work. But such is not the fate of 

 the horses we are now alluding to, those which are 

 doomed to hard daily toil on the highways, resting 

 only on the Sunday from their heavy drudgery. 

 With what joy we may suppose the poor animals 

 welcome the return of that day, unless it be their 



