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and fituations where the attendance is equal to 

 the niceft duties of cleanHnefs, are very differ- 

 ent from thofe in which I have fo (Irongly 

 urged the neceffity of clofe trimming. But the 

 greafed condition of too many ftage-waggon 

 horfes, is a moft powerful argument for trim- 

 ming all in that fervice ; nor is there much 

 confequence attached to the idea, that the hair 

 defends the legs of thofe horfes from flints 

 upon the road, fmce horfes which travel fall 

 are infinitely more liable, and yet always clofe 

 trimmed. I muft obferve in this place, I have 

 feen feveral difagreeable accidents from the 

 legs of cart-horfes being wounded by bean 

 ftubble, the punftures, at firfl of little apparent 

 confequence, being overlooked or neglefted. 

 The legs ought to be well examined, after 

 labour in places where fuch accidents are pro- 

 bable. 



I {hall give the method of drefiing a horfe, 

 in an extraft from that old author whom I 

 have fo often quoted ; it will be found to ac- 

 cord pretty nearly with our prefent praftice : 

 Having tied up the horfe 's head, " take a cur- 

 ry-comb, and curry him all over his body, 

 to raife the duft, beginning firfl at his neck, 

 ** holding the left cheek of the head-flall in 

 " your left hcud, and curry him from the fet- 

 " ting on of his head, all along his neck, to 

 ** his (houlder, and fo go all over his body to 



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