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her even as a hunter ; for I should not forgive 

 myself if I got a valuable man crippled by such 

 a demon, merely because I was carried well with 

 hounds ; had I such a hack, he should go for what 

 he would bring at the first auction I could send 

 him to. 



I strongly recommend every gentleman to at 

 once reject a determined biter: that is, for an 

 every day horse. 



KICKING. 



Various are the occasions on which, and various 

 the circumstances under which, a horse will kick ; 

 I do not, therefore, at once recommend a pur- 

 chaser to reject a kicker, as I have done a biter ; 

 for, taking it in its very diffuse term, where one 

 horse kicks from vice, at least twenty do so from 

 other incentives : but as the different occasions 

 on which a horse may kick makes all the differ- 

 ence in point of objection to different persons, 

 and also to the different purposes he is wanted 

 for, we must particularise, to a certain degree, 

 the different kinds of kicking. We will commence 

 with — 



KICKING IN THE STABLE. 



If a horse only kicks when he is being dressed, 

 w^e w411 dispose of him In a very few words ; he 



