28 HINTS TO housemen; or, 



worse for being so used ; but the three parts, or 

 seven-eighths bred horse now required, quotes, or, at 

 least, his breeding quotes, the old lines from (if I 

 recollect right) the Old Bath Guide — 



*' Sir, I'm a gentleman/ do ye tlmik it fit 

 I should to vulgar rules suhnit?'^ 



It is true the'labour of the horse paid for his keep 

 during this year of his growth ; thus a year's keep 

 was saved ; but I should say the greatly-increased 

 prices properly bred and reared horses will now 

 fetch, more than made amends for the year's keep, 

 without the former labour. 



The very noble animals we see in use by brewers, 

 distillers, and others in London, if bred by the 

 farmer, may be moderately worked while growing 

 into money ; but even with them, their work, if they 

 are intended to be really fine animals, and conse- 

 quently to fetch high [prices, must be but light — 

 that is, far below their actual capabilities. The 

 Dutch and Flemish-bred horse is daily gaining in 

 the estimation of persons using heavy draught 



