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course he cannot do this if his lungs are not as sound as 

 bells, and his legs and feet perfectly healthy. I may say, 

 however, that exhibitions oi pace are perfectly unnecessary ; 

 nobody really needs to gallop full tilt to covert — but light 

 easy action, and reliable powers of endurance, ought not to 

 be lightly esteemed. Beauty may be altogether dispensed 



HOCK — GOOD POSITION. 



with in the covert hack — although it is generally so coveted 

 that buyers will often ignore many important defects on 

 account of it. I don't approve of this. I have seen most 

 excellent hacks who had coarse heads, blemished bodies, 

 rat tails, and other undeniably ugly attributes— but what 

 mattered it, so long as they had perfections of a more 



