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machiners ; I once fav/ a poor mare, ftone 

 blind, exquifitely (liaped, and fliewing all the 

 marks of high blood, moft unmercifully cut 

 with the whip, about a quarter of an hour 

 before the fale, in order to bring her to the 

 ufe of her ftiffened limbs : it was a fruitlefs 

 piece of cruehy, her labour was done, and fhe 

 was receiving her reward from the hand of 

 ungrateful man ! I faw the tears trickling down 

 her cheeks, and to me it was an affe6ling fight. 

 All this barbarity is totally unneceffary, for the 

 intent of it is fo generally known, that it can 

 deceive nobody ; nay it often has the effe6l of 

 producing hidden cramps in a horfe, and al- 

 ways of fpoiling his trot upon a fl^ew. I inhfl 

 upon it, from long obfervation, that all horfes 

 are fliewn to the beft advantage by a moderate 

 uk of the whip. 1 here is alfo a cruel folly 

 prevalent among cow-jobbers, namely, that of 

 Ifocking the cows, as it is called ; they oblige 

 ihefe creatures to fuffer the pains of retention, 

 twenty-four or perhaps forty-eight hours, pre- 

 vious to fale, that they may have a great fhew 

 of milk ; as if all buyers of cows were not aware 

 of the cuftom, and of confequence deception 

 muff be out of queftion. The plea that any 

 knowledge of the animal can be thence ob- 

 tained, is ridiculous ; for there are other rules of 

 judging infinitely more certain, familiar to every 

 experienced man. Many cows get inflamed 



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