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water-dreaders. This fault is not of much conse- 

 quence to his master, who candidly owns he dreads 

 water as much as his horse when hunting, and much 

 more afterwards, as those who have sat at his hospi- 

 table board can verify. Luckily, there is but little 

 water in the county the horse is hunted in, and very 

 little consumed at the table the master presides at, 

 so their mutual antipathy is not often outraged. At 

 anything but water, this horse is a most willing 

 jumper ; but shew him the crystal stream, and, 

 like his master, he determinately says, ''I won't 

 have it." !N^ow, this horse would really be of no 

 value as a hunter in Lincolnshire, or parts of Essex, 

 and, were he there, would be to be bought at a trifle. 

 Other circumstances often cause really good horses 

 being sold far under their value, for other localities 

 than the one they happen to be in. 



The natural or acquired dread of water is a fault, 

 or rather peculiarity, that, in a general way, it is 

 next to impossible to cure a horse of ; and rarely can 

 much improvement be made in him, for he is actuated 

 by fear. Now, if a horse is a lazy or careless jumper, 



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