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for about a couple of miles, on a public road, 

 where vehicles of different descriptions were fre- 

 quently passing and repassing. I confess what 

 I did was very wrong, but I was very young at 

 the time, and knew no better. I have merely 

 mentioned this circumstance, by way of example, 

 and, indeed, I could state a variety of others 

 equally thoughtless and neglectful ; but the one 

 I have here given may suffice to shew how very 

 incorrect it would be in any groom to intrust 

 a valuable horse to the entire care of a young, 

 thoughtless, inexperienced boy. I confess I have 

 made a long digression from the subject with 

 which I began this chapter; I have done so 

 merely to give my readers such necessary hints 

 as I hope will guard them against any negligent 

 sort of errors, which might, if allowed to take 

 place, be the cause of serious inconveniences or 

 accidents occurring among the horses. 



Let us now return to the sweating of the third 

 class of horses. In the preceding chapter on this 

 subject, we described six horses doing their first 

 sweat in the early part of the season, and we 

 stated that a difference of a week or ten days 

 would perhaps take place in the sweating days of 

 different horses; the period when these days may 



