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be as white as your fhirt, and fweat in fuch 

 a manner as ro make one pity them." The 

 corroborating evidence of the coachman con- 

 vinced me of the caufe of my horfes looking 

 fo bad : but, being defirous of hearing whether 

 the coachman was capable of giving any rea- 

 fon for his affertions, I told him, I always 

 underftood that it was bed to feed horfes with 

 ground corn. " Then you underftood wrong, 

 mafter," faid he ; " for I know my horfes have 

 been much weaker fince they have been fo 

 fed/' "But/' faid I, "probably they have lefs 

 now than when they fed upon unground corn." 

 He replied. " No -, for they have all they will 

 eat. 3 ' As this man had fpent his life amongft 

 horfes, in his youth was brought up in the (ta- 

 ble, afterwards a poft-boy, and then a coach- 

 man, I had the curiofity to enquire of him how 

 the different matters he had lived with ufed to 

 keep their horfes. Amongft the number he 

 mentioned, there was one who made ufe of 

 chopped ftraw, with one third of faintfoin and 

 beans, but no oats ; and whofe horfes perform- 

 ed their work better and were ftronger than 

 any others he had ever met with. He faid, 

 that for middle-aged horfes the beans were not 



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