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for your fervice. While fuch advantages are 

 practicable, through the eafy and pleafing 

 mean of humanity, who would take the pains 

 to be a tyrant ? 



It is well known that Tome Horfes, although 

 rather ill-natured to their own fpecies (for which 

 it is difficult to affign a reafon) are exceedingly 

 attached to the human, and will play with their 

 keepers, with as much apparent delight, as 

 fpaniels ; but horfe-play is proverbially danger- 

 ous, and I have thence witneffed feveral fatal 

 accidents. 



The fecond clafs, or the flupid and unno- 

 ticing, it is obvious, can never be mended by 

 harm, and cruel ufage. It can only ferve to 

 increafe the natural torpor of their difpofition, 

 and render their bodies mfenfible and callous ; 

 in fact, to lefTen their ufe, and increafe their 

 owner's trouble. A poft-boy would fay to me, 

 " Ah, mafter, your fine reafons would never 

 bring my nodes through their ftage." Thefe 

 practical fages are, however, not always right. 

 It feems to me, at lead plaufible, that if they 

 did not deaden their horfes feelings, by a pre- 

 mature, and too free ufe of the whip and fpur, 

 they would fave their arms and legs much la- 

 bour, and their mailers a great deal of horfe- 

 flefh. 



The perverfe and rebellious, or vicious 

 horfes, are of two kinds, thofe which are fo 

 from natural predifpofition, and fuch as are 



rendered 



