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The rapidity with which these animals recover 

 health, strength, flesh, and spirits, in the spring, is 

 as astonishing as it is how so many survive the 

 winter, during which they shew as mere spectres. 

 It is true the value of such at a useable age is not 

 much ; but four or five pounds really is much to 

 get for that which has cost no expenditure of money, 

 time, care, or thought. 



There are certain persons who trade in these de- 

 scriptions of animals : many of these dealers are 

 gipsies, and a great trade with them is ruddle, which 

 they sell to farmers to mark their sheep with. They 

 come round at particular seasons, when these ponies 

 have got a little fresh, and also when they know the 

 ruddle will be wanted. Their mode of breaking them 

 to carrj', is, of course, somewhat primitive : they fasten 

 two or three bags of ruddle on a colt's back, fasten 

 him to one accustomed to carry burdens, and thus 

 let him kick or plunge till he has tired himself, 

 which in a very short time he does, and then be- 

 comes as tractable as his tutor, who has been broken 

 in the same rude manner. Those that are not 



