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the wounded check became ulcerated, making a sore that 

 was very difficult to heal. 



By the time I return, the Falcon, Never Mind, and Jane 

 will be ready to be harnessed. The colts you may begin 

 at once with, as the more practice they get, the quicker 

 they will learn ; and not expecting them to trot fast 

 enough to require first-rate condition, we will make the 

 first consideration to teach them as much of their harness 

 education as the time will permit. This is a matter we 

 also discuss after dinner. I feel that my digestive organs 

 are in proper order, and when the time comes for me to 

 take my feed, I require no stimulus to eat with a relish. 



PUPIL. I am sorry to hear that I am to be deprived of 

 your company, though I am pleased you have made up 

 your mind to absent yourself when your instructions will 

 be of less importance than in the future. I regret, how- 

 ever, that my affairs have caused you to change the time 

 of your trip from that contemplated ; and you place me 

 under renewed obligations by neglecting your own inte- 

 rests to further mine. 



PKECEPTOK. You need not mention the obligation, as 

 perhaps I will leave you again at my ordinary time of 

 transmigration. I have some friends in the country with 

 whom I spend a couple of weeks semi-annually, and have- 

 always timed my visit in the winter to the holidays, and in 

 the summer to the middle of July, when my horses could 

 be advantageously thrown up for a while, and recuperate 

 their health and strength ; all parties benefited by laying 

 in a fund that will carry us triumphantly through the fall 

 campaign. 



