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horfe I ever had in my life was of this kind- 

 He laboured ten years for me, and five out of 

 the ten, I mould think, as hard as any horfe 

 alive. He has many times, as filler in a cart, 

 gone down fome fteep ways with fixty-three 

 hundred weight behind him, which (hewed we 

 placed fome dependance upon his goodnefs, 

 and he was always perfectly kind and willing. 

 But if hooked to a fixed body, which he could 

 not move, the inftant he perceived the ftate of 

 the cafe, he ceafed all farther effort, and would 

 not pull an ounce ; but anfwered the whip, by 

 making his neck and head, and looking back to 

 the object, or, as I have fometimes thought, point- 

 ing towards his own loins. There is an analogy 

 between this cafe, and that of race-horfes, which 

 will not, or rather cannot, run to the whip; 

 and it is equally againft common fenfe, as com- 

 mon humanity, to whip and abufe them ; yet I 

 have heard of fixing a chain to the neck of a 

 cart-hone, going up-hill, and other barbarous 

 follies. 



In treating of draft-cattle, for the ufe of the me - 

 tropolis in particular, having already treated 

 to the extent of my knowledge, on the general 

 principle, I have only a few practical remarks 

 to make. I think it would be much to the advan- 

 tage of the proprietors of drays and town-carts, 

 to make ufe of a lighter, and more active defcrip- 

 tion of horfes. Such would not only perform the 



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