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for air and health, would answer every purpose he 

 was wanted for, if even considerably gone in his 

 wind ; and for such a person easiness of pace, 

 safety, and steadiness, are of greater import than 

 such lungs as are wanted in the hack to carry his 

 master to a fixture twelve miles from Melton, 

 where to such a man any defect of wind would 

 render a horse perfectly useless. A horse that 

 could not live a galloping stage in a Comet, Tally- 

 ho, Tantivy, or Berkeley Hunt coach, would look 

 well, work well, and do well drawing a Brougham, 

 for the generality of persons, about London 

 streets. 



Allowing, as I do, that horses faulty in their 

 wind are quite capable of doing many sorts of 

 work pleasantly to the owner, and with compa- 

 rative ease to themselves, my entertaining such 

 insurmountable dislike to them may appear an 

 incongruity. I am willing to have this preju- 

 dice set down as a description of monomania, if 

 the reader pleases ; but on or behind a bad winded 

 horse I am in a continual fidget. Perhaps having 

 all my life been used to very fast ones, as hunters, 

 hacks, or harness horses, may account for it. Yet, 

 unless when necessary, or sometimes, I allow, as a 

 temporary bit of vanity, I do not want to go 

 faster than any man accustomed to good goers 

 usually does ; but the feeling of having one, under 

 or before me, that cannot get me out of another 



