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head. I consequently took the hberty of asking him 

 one day how old he was. '' Forty-five," was the 

 reply. " Then I am fifty," I said; " and now 

 behold your own crown partly bald and partly grey, 

 whilst mine is neither the one nor the other. It 

 would better become you to ask me for a recipe how 

 to keep your hair in proper trim than to dilate on 

 your nostrums for mine." And this is my retort to 

 all chattering counsellors of stable treatment who are 

 unable to exhibit horses with either decent legs or 

 decent feet themselves. Look on this foot, I say, 

 then on that. 



One of my cousins who came to cut up my 

 " country cows," (and he did it very correctly, yet 

 acknowledging he was a little baulked and could not 

 find much fault with the lower stories), remarked : — 

 " You are not a fair criterion to judge by. You 

 never work your legs crooked." That is the very 

 reason, I said, they happen to be straight — and the 

 same reason applies to my cows' heels ; they are never 

 closed, because I take good care to keep them open. 

 What English people want, is to have their harness 

 horses trotting about from two to four hours a day, 

 going from fifteen to twenty miles ; and their hunters 

 also to do double work, and both with impunity. 

 Coachmen have often a good share in looking out for 



