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valued by Ms master, and by him alone, at sixty. It 

 is true, any person who can clean, not dress, a horse 

 will suffice ; but twenty or thirty pounds a-year in 

 wages make th e difference between a Yahoo who, 

 if he takes your horse to cover, takes his own dirty 

 feet out of the stirrups, which he hands over to you, 

 and the servant who does things properly. But 

 every man has an indisputable right in all such mat- 

 ters to act as pleases him ; but only do not let it 

 create surprise, that in one way he never can or will 

 turn his horses to account, nor wonder why men who 

 know better so frequently do. 



I believe I have now run through the different 

 modes in which money is to be made by horses by 

 those not professing to deal in them. I am aware I 

 have spoken in a manner of some men that may lead 

 to the impression that I have indulged in ridicule ; I 

 beg here to absolve myself from such charge by 

 stating, that if anything bordering on ridicule ap- 

 pears, I have only used it as we do the common 

 phrase of '' a sailor on horseback ;" whereas there are 

 among them some as fine horsemen as any going. In 



