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to fee the friendly advances of this excellent, 

 this next to human creature, treated with furly 

 indifference, or cruel (tripes. 



Jockies fay, " a Horfe (hould carry his head 

 in a proper place, when mounted;" How is 

 that? So that his chin, or under jaw, recline 

 fomewhat under his windpipe, and his neck 

 and head form a portion of a circle. But this 

 relates only to a flow pace. 



In the purchafe of a horfe, with the ufual 

 warrant, we will fuppofe, the buyer ought to 

 attend firfl of all to the mod important con- 

 fiderations, in which being fatisfied, it is vain 

 to hefitate, fmce as the cafe ftands, he may not 

 meet that fatisfaclion every day. Thefe, I 

 think, are — age, ability to carry his weight, fafe 

 going, and good feet ; freedom from knocking, 

 cutting, or over-reaching; that there be no 

 need of martingale, or crupper; fpeed. 



What has been already faid of form and 

 blood, the reader will find as ftri&ly applica- 

 ble, in general, to the hunter as the hackney ; 

 but the former not being required to trot, 

 or to go much over hard-roads, are additional 

 arguments in favour of thorough blood. Nor 

 can it be doubted, that a bred horfe (if not 

 too high upon the leg) from the cleannefs of his 

 make, and the flrength of his finews, is the 

 fitted to carry twenty (lone, over the deepeft 

 and mod inclofed country. 



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