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properly treated, as if they were valuable ones ; but 

 I think it perfectly fair to risk twenty-five pounds 

 in danger where we might not a hundred; and 

 further, what might, and probably would, bring on 

 cold and lasting disease to an animal treated as 

 valuable ones are, would not do so with those used 

 to hardier endurance. If a man has occasion to 

 expose an animal to heats and cold, bad roads, 

 inclement weather, change of stables, and water, 

 and provender, as he can get them, he would natu- 

 rally take the least valuable one he had, and the one 

 least likely to feel their effects ; so on such occasions 

 there is neither injustice to the owner, nor cruelty to 

 the animal, to hire one ; for nothing is intended to 

 be done with him that the person driving would not 

 do with his own, if he had one fitted for such pur- 

 pose : but we are in no shape authorised in pre- 

 meditately subjecting an animal to suffering, or 

 undue exertion, because he is unfortunate enough to 

 be hired. If I wanted to go a long but reasonable 

 distance, and had no horse by me in the habit of, 

 or condition for such an undertaking, I should hire, 



