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pointed by Government before they were 

 admitted; and for my own credit's sake, 

 I would not risk this. Had I had her 

 destroyed at once, I should have been 

 spared the ruin that at no distance of 

 time overtook me. I very foolishly sent 

 her to my own private stables, and kept 

 her two or three days ; when such un- 

 mistakable proofs of that dire disease, 

 the glanders, manifesting themselves, that 

 I had her killed. 



Every precaution was taken, as far as 

 cleansing, whitewashing, and fumigating 

 the stable went, to prevent its spreading, 

 as I well knew what a virulent, as well 

 as what a contagious disease it was; and 

 the summer of that year passed away 

 without any appearance among my other 

 horses of anything like infection. In- 

 deed, I did not occupy this particular 

 stall till the hunting season had com- 

 menced, and it was not till Novem- 



