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sides this, look at the amount of litigation it has cost 

 (if not perjury) in the world. Therefore, I say, when a 

 man has a diseased horse, he should set himself to work 

 studying into the nature of the disease, and apply those 

 harmless remedies that nature has provided for all, until 

 he effects a cure, or place him in the hands of a compe- 

 tent person for this purpose, but not trade him off as 

 sound because he does not know how to make him such. 



In human life there is a constant change of fortune, 

 and it would be unreasonable to expect exemption from 

 the common fate of mankind. Life itself decays, and 

 all things are daily changing, yet 1 hope and trust that 

 you will endeavor with me to use the things of this 

 world so as not to abuse them. Do right and fear not, 

 is the motto, for fear and ignorance are the parents of 

 cruelty. 



Well, as I happen to live in the days of fast men and 

 fast horses, I must pen a few more lines and then I am 

 done. The time has been when any improvement in 

 horses, was by many almost despaired of; and even rail 

 roads, as well as the march of other improvements, if not 

 impeded, have been objected to and opposed on the 

 ground that horses would be thrown out of employ; that 

 there would be no market for them, consequently the 

 farmer could not get pay for raising them, but the result 

 has proved the reverse of this. 



The fact in this case is, the horse is an adjunct of civili- 

 zation, and can never be dispensed with. The further- 

 ance of other improvements, only serve to his advance- 

 ment, and to increase his demand, for the supply of good 



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