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flie has taken to her hay and corn again. 

 My brother's horfe, ufed to it as he has been 

 from his infancy, and pampered as he con- 

 ftantly is, looks more like a common hack 

 than a hunter. 



" There are two reafons why aJiorfe which 

 is fubjeded to violent exercife mould not be 

 expofed at grafs, in fevere weather. It takes 

 them off their dry meat; and horfcs which 

 fwcat much are in the nature of things more 

 chilly, fuffer more from pinching cold, and 

 are more liable to be feized by acute dif- 

 orders, than horfes which have more mode- 

 rate exercife, and whofe frames are lefs relax- 

 ed. A horfe which has been enured to thofe 

 tranfuions of heat and cold will, no doubt, 

 bear theni better than one which has always 

 been ufed to a warm liable ; and which cer- 

 tainly ought not to be expofed to fuch dan- 

 gerous treatment without the greateft pre- 

 caution. 



" I am neverthelefs of opinion, that letting 

 a horfe run out in winter keeps his legs cleaner 

 and more fupple than (landing always in the 

 liable. My mare was not frefher on her legs 



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