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gentlemen travellers. Yet, when the journey is 

 long, to trot a tired horse up-hill is cruelty, and 

 sometimes occasions him to throw a curb : to ride 

 rapidly down hill, shakes his fore legs, and not 

 unfrequently throws the rider. As then the walk 

 is indispensable, and no time is lost, the weight 

 may as well be removed by dismounting. Another 

 of my travelling rules is to give my horse his 

 water at some pond on the road side, a mile or 

 two before I stop to bait him. The subsequent 

 exercise prevents its being injurious to him in 

 suddenly checking perspiration ; while by deferring 

 it, as is usually done, till he has been dressed, he 

 is kept suffering from thirst for an hour or two, 

 and of course refuses his corn. It so rarely hap- 

 pens that gentlemen tiy their own powers by long- 

 continued and severe exertion, that they are not 

 very capable of appreciating the suffering occa- 

 sioned by real thirst. When I was many years 

 younger, it was no uncommon occurrence to me to 

 walk forty or fifty miles in a day ; sometimes even 

 sixty. The relief afforded on such arduous amuse- 

 ment, by an occasional glass of ale, is unspeakably 

 great, and I judge of my horse by myself: but I 

 regulate him by the same rules, — I allow him fre- 

 quent sipsy but never indulge him in ample pota- 

 tions till night. 



