2J0 ON THE PACES, AND 



ling, the flage ought never to exceed two or 

 three and twenty miles. 



In a long day's journey, it is preferable to 

 feed moderately during work, and more largely 

 in the evening and morning. 



For common occafions, precife rules are fu- 

 perfluous ; but if you wifh to " go along" with 

 your nag, through the piece ; at no rate, get 

 upon his back until a full hour after he has 

 finifhed his bait, with which, in my opinion, 

 w r ater fhould be allowed him. Does any man 

 doubt the utility of this obfervation ? Let him 

 eat a hearty Englifh dinner, drink part of a 

 bottle of Port, rife immediately from table, and 

 run two miles at his rate ; at pulling up, he and 

 I will argue the cafe, feriatim, previous to his 

 proceeding two miles farther. 



Our elders have taught us not to give a 

 horfe cold water, whilft he is in a ftate of per- 

 fpiration: and it is of almoft equal confe- 

 quence, that we remember, never to naffer one 

 in that ftate, to remain any confiderable time 

 with his feet in cold water, either in winter or 

 fummer. Baret records a cafe of a hunter, 

 f polled by this practice j and I have known fe- 

 veral horfes irrecoverably foundered by it : the 

 laft inftance, within my obfervation, was of a 

 bay gelding, the property of a gentleman in my 

 neighbourhood. He was driven hard in a 



chaife, 



