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chant ; " — he liked something more substantial : he 

 owned a pig, that he located at the next cottage, 

 and by Christmas had him a good fifteen score ; 

 and it was quite remarkable that the horses got 

 thin in precisely the same ratio the grunter got 

 fat: when killed he exhibited a spare-rib well 

 covered, while the horses exhibited only the usual 

 number, and those not covered at all. The 

 poultry-fancier was brought back, when, out of 

 pure devilry, he brought also back a lot of Malay 

 fowls in addition to his old stock, and turned 

 them down before his master's face : notwith- 

 standing this, the horses soon showed who had 

 the care of them. 



Cart-horses (a description of animal that, among 

 most others of a domestic kind, I have had the 

 pleasure of entertaining at rack and manger) I 

 always allowed two bushels of oats per week, 

 which, if the master achieves that rather difficult 

 task of making them do a fair day's work, is not 

 too much, with chaff (and when the work is hard, 

 beans), which they take as a kind of whet to 

 their appetites for hay (as some persons do oysters 

 before dinner) ; of hay, cart-horses will consume 

 half a truss in the twenty-four hours, and, if the 

 carters are not well watched, even more : for 

 nothing short of absolute exhaustion of the masti- 

 cating powers ever yet convinced a carter that he 

 or his horse had had enough. 



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