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is well acquainted ; and on being purfued, is 

 eaiily driven towards it. When he is about 

 the middle of the mole, two or three men 

 ftart up in front, and oblige him to leap' 

 into the bog, where he is intangled, and 

 feized. 



At all the neio^hbourinor fairs, thefe horfes 

 are a principal commodity, and are bought 

 up for every purpofe, to which a horfe can 

 be applied. Diminutive as they are, you may 

 often fee half a dozen of them ftraining in 

 a waggon : and as it is fafhionable to drive 

 them in light carriages, their price has been 

 inhanced. It is a little fortune to a poor 

 cottager, if he happen to polTefs three or four 

 colts, that are tolerably handlbme, and match 

 well. He may probably fell them for ten, or 

 twelve pounds a piece. 



In point of value, the New-foreft horfe 

 would rife higher, if the fame care was taken 

 in breeding him, which was formerly taken* ; 

 and which is ftill in fome degree, taken in 

 the neighbouring foreft of Bere ; where, I 

 have heard, the keepers are ordered to deftroy 

 all horfes, which, at three years of age, are 



* See Manwood on foreft-law, page 29. 



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