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would be inundated by works of all sorts and sizes, 

 and written by all sorts of persons, on the subject. 

 If we were even to produce a work shewing how the 

 lives of animals (even that of the favourite one, the 

 horse,) could be rendered happy and comfortable to 

 the animal individually, without any peculiar pecu- 

 niary advantage to the owner, it would not be bought ; 

 or if it was, and read, its precepts would not be 

 attended to by one person in five hundred ; but if we 

 could pen a treatise in which we could shew how, 

 by increased suffering to the animal, he could be 

 made to live without cost of keep, or by diminished 

 cost, and that without diminishing his value, all 

 the disposable press of the country would barely 

 suffice to print a publication imparting so invaluable 

 a secret ; and 1 greatly fear, that in the truly money- 

 loving countries of England and Scotland, the 

 system would be more acted upon than in any other. 

 The Arab, from his known fondness of his horse, 

 might probably prove an exception ; but I am not 

 aware of another. Go where we will, (though 

 perhaps in a less degree than among ourselves,) 



