now TO MAKE MOIS^EY EY HOESES. 33 



horse : let him not so deceive himself ; it is quite 

 true that a thorough-bred mare, though put to good 

 sires, may never have produced a colt that, as a race- 

 horse, was fit to run for a man's hat ; yet we will 

 say her seventh or eighth foal turned out a Flying 

 Dutchman. Such things have often happened ; but 

 I never did know or hear of a common kind of Diare, 

 put to as common kind of horse, producing anything 

 much better than themselves. It will thus be seen 

 there can be no profit in breeding a direct sort 

 of very middling animal, under any circumstances ; 

 and the slightest ill luck must entail inevitable 

 loss. 



Such farmers as I allude to, seem to forget that a 

 little additional hay and oats, a little more expendi- 

 ture in the first cost of the mare, five sovereigns for a 

 sire quite good enough to get hunters or fine harness 

 horses, instead of one sovereign to some wretch of a 

 sire who will beget stock good for nothing, and a 

 little additional care and attention, will just make 

 the difference of possessing an animal at four years 

 old worth from seventy to a hundred, instead of 



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