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pence, for cure and recovery, would render 

 great and much required fervices to the metro- 

 poHs. Laft year, a thill horfe, which had lately 

 coft forty guineas, fell under a heavy load, and 

 received confiderable damage, in particular a 

 deep wound in one of his knees. With the af- 

 fiftance of the farrier's infernal fpecifics, a moil 

 violent inflammation enfued, in which Rate the 

 horfe remained weeks, or for ought I know, 

 months, in a clofe confined (lable ; until, t)e- 

 fides his original malady, he became greafed 

 all-fours. I faw him towards the clofe of the 

 year, jufl: turned out of the hot ftable into a 

 field, in a cold north wind and rain; he laid 

 unable to rife, his knee in the above-mentioned 

 ftate ; his heels graped, greafed up to his hocks, 

 and the horfe not worth thirty (hillings ! Had 

 this fine, young, and valuable horfe, been at 

 firfl fent to fuch a fituation as I have defcribed, 

 there is no reafon to doubt, but that in fix weeks 

 his cure might have been complete. On en- 

 quiry, I found the owner had been extremely 

 folicitous about the horfe's recovery ; and yet 

 had I known, and advifed him honeflly, I am 

 convinced he v^^ould not have afted otherwife 

 than he did. So charming a thing it is for a 

 man to have his own way, whatever it may coif 

 him ! — Were I fo inclined, I could eafily fill a 

 thick o6lavo, with well-attefied cafes of fimilar 

 defcription. 



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