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it, it is not abandoning his profession, but pursuing a remote 

 department of it, which has too long already been left to 

 men who look upon tlie liorso as an instrument cliicdy of 

 gambling gains, or of mere physical pleasure. 



IIENIIY WARD BKECIIKU. 



Twin-Mountain House, Wiiitk Mountains, 

 Aug. 27, 1873. 



