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come round depending upon their constitutions. 

 But the six horses we are now about to sweat 

 are very nearly alike as to their constitutional 

 properties ; and therefore they will all have to 

 sweat within a day or two of each other, some of 

 them sweating three times a fortnight, others 

 once in six days. Be this as it may, the groom is 

 at all times to endeavour to arrange the sweating 

 of this class of horses so as not to have any one 

 of them sweat alone; that is, there should be a 

 horse of the second class, who may be kind in 

 his temper and wanting a sweat, to lead any idle 

 horse of this third class that would otherwise 

 have to sweat alone, his sweating day coming 

 round oftener than that of the four or five others 

 of the same class, whose constitutions are not 

 quite so strong. 



Now, as the class of horses in question proceed 

 in their sweats, the various changes produced by 

 them will be readily observed in each horse. 

 Some of them will of course undergo much greater 

 changes than others: onfe boy finds, in buck- 

 ling on his horse's body-clothes when he is done 

 after the sweat, that his roller buckles up a hole 

 tighter ; another boy finds, in doing the same thing, 

 that his horse's roller buckles up two holes tighter. 



