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ment as to liis feeds. People who want a horse 

 as a slave and as a beast of business, about 

 whom they will give themselves no trouble after 

 he has performed his task, would do well to get 

 a glutton that nothing can choke of his feed, if 

 they do not object to whaling along such a moving 

 mass of repletion, as such horses usually are. We 

 should each take trouble in our different ways. 

 I would greatly prefer some trouble to make 

 my horse feed, to the slightest to get him along. 

 Speed and vivacity I must have in a horse for any 

 purpose for which I am to use him : oats I will 

 take care he shall have, if trouble and contrivance 

 can effect it. If he will not spare his trouble to 

 please me, I will not spare mine to benefit him ; 

 and if a groom will not take the pains to make a 

 horse feed, if pains will do it, I should not part 

 with the horse, but very soon should with the 

 man. 



LOW AND HIGH ACTION. 



This difference of action arises from so many 

 causes, that, not to enter into minute or abstruse 

 contemplation of them, I will settle the point by. 

 classing it among the habits of the horse. It is 

 caused in some cases by peculiar formation ; in 

 others from anatomical influence without reference 

 to form; in others from the mode in which the 



