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in the scale against animal suffering, and particularly 

 when we consider what this suffering animal is. 



Coach horses are subject to symptoms known by the 

 appellation of ' the lick,' which greatly injures their 

 condition. They lick each others' skins, and gnaw their 

 halters into pieces. This proceeds from a heated state 

 of the stomach, produced by the excitement of high feed 

 and work, and is removed by alterative medicines or 

 physic. 



YOUNG HORSES. 



My experience on the coach-box having been chiefly 

 confined to the public road work, I have not had suffi- 

 cient practice in the difficult art of breaking in young 

 horses, to enable me to dictate to anyone on that subject ; 

 and having been, in the course of these letters, particularly 

 cautious in offering any opinions not sanctioned by 

 practical observation and knowledge of the matter in 

 question, I determined to apply for information on this 

 part of my subject to a quarter whence I was certain to 

 receive that which could be depended upon. I wrote to 

 that well-known and experienced coachman, Mr. Charles 

 Buxton, who has been so long famed for excelling in this 

 branch of coachmanship, and who was kind enough to 

 write me the following excellent letter, which, I am 

 certain, in his zeal for the profession, he will excuse my 

 giving to the public : 



' I have sent you the mode that I have adopted in 



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