2^2 ON DRAFT CATTLE. 



vailed upon to believe, that fourteen flone is 

 no heavier than ten, as that it would not be a 

 great faving of ftrength to the horfe, to have 

 the latter weight to carry inflead of the former. 

 In the enumeration of the various means of 

 improvement, every item ought to have its 

 due {hare of attention; and without a pun, 

 reflection will prove the prefent to be of great 

 weight. The difficulty of obtaining men of 

 light weights, fubfifts only in the improvident 

 indolence of mafters. Nature has fpontaneoufly 

 furnifhed fitting inflruments for all the various 

 poflible operations ; among the reft, men of 

 bulk and weight for ploughmen and porters, 

 and little natty nine and ten flone fellows for 

 grooms, jockies, and poftillions — witnefs the 

 old ditty, written in the days of gofpel fun- 

 mine, by that precious faint Adoniram Byfield, 

 and to be found in one of his fermons : 



God made a great man to plough and to fow,' 

 God made a little man to fcare away the crow, 



God made the world, as round us a bull, 

 In came die Devil; and fpoilt it all. 



Now this was the devil of mifapplicarion. — 



Were it but once known that the pofhnafters 

 had determined to give good encouragement 

 to light weights, they would foon have their 

 choice from twelve flone down to a feather. 

 In return and empty chaifes, the lads generally 

 choofe either to fet upon the fpliriter bar. or 



within, 



