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animal, as any man need wish to possess ; yet his 

 master tells me he cannot get through dirt. Now I 

 will mention a circumstance as regards this horse 

 and owner, that may perhaps solve what may be a 

 mystery to persons similarly circumstanced. I always 

 told my friend his horse was under his weight : 

 though in a run his thorough gameness brings him 

 through, it may be that the horse has not the 

 powers of getting through dirt ; but quare, might he 

 not show very differently even in the same country 

 if two stone were taken off his back? He now 

 carries nearly twelve stone and a half: too much 

 b}'' the two stone, I think, to do him justice, he 

 ought to be eased of. He carries his master, and 

 carries him well ; but the dirt tells, and when it 

 does, the weight tells doubly. It was always a rule 

 with me, as regards hunters, to have a stone and a 

 half, or more, to spare ; and my readers may depend 

 on it this helps through dirt wonderfully, and, in- 

 deed, through and over everything else ; it often 

 makes a very indifferent horse bearable, a moderate 

 one a good one, and a good one ''a Comet" to be 



