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ration; but in cafe of plethora, dullnefs, or 

 heaviness about the head and eyes, it may be 

 prefumed that bleeding will benefit the colt, 

 and the wound may be intirely neglecled. If 

 any application be thought neceffary, nothing 

 is fo proper as French brandy. No twitching, 

 trammelling, fearing with hot irons, nor any 

 of the barbarous Vulcanian apparatus, is here 

 required; and what will weigh more than all 

 the reft, with certain of my readers — no far- 

 rier's bill. 



Of nicking, I (hall fay but little; in truth if 

 nobody were more attached to it than I am, 

 the art would foon be loft, from difufe. At 

 prefent, I muft allow, we fet Horfes tails in a 

 more natural form, than fome years back, 

 when it was the cuftom to cock them bolt up- 

 right, in a moft burlefque, and prepofterous 

 manner, and a young horfe, with his blazing 

 meteor difplayed a poftcriore, looked juft as 

 naturally and in character, as a young fellow 

 with his head enveloped in the curls of an 

 enormous perriwig. My prejudice in favour 

 of every thing appertaining to the turf, may 

 perhaps warp my judgment ; but I am all for 

 broom or racing tails, fuch as are " cut fquare 

 by the Ruftian ftandard;" thefe, I think, are be- 

 coming and natural to all forts and fizes of 

 Horfes, but more particularly at this time, now 

 the ihew of blood is fo univerfal. As to the 



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