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Another circumstance, often arising from want of 

 knowledge, or combination of ideas, respecting the 

 treatment of horses, is a cause of frequent most 

 cruel suffering to them — this is the keeping them too 

 much stinted in their allowance of water. A man, 

 be he master or servant, hears that hunters are kept 

 from water on hunting mornings, or, at least, only 

 get a very small quantity, which is certainly the 

 case, he therefore infers that his horse will perform 

 his journey better from undergoing the same depri- 

 vation : such a man is one of those persons I before 

 alluded to, as thinking once, but not oftener — if he 

 did, he would see the absurdity of holding the two 

 cases similar ones : he forgets that the hunter's work 

 is in a cool, perhaps cold season of the year,'and that 

 a burst of two or perhaps only one hour's duration 

 on a winter's day, is a very different thing to being 

 exposed to a burning sun during a day's journey in 

 July or August. If I contemplated, on a winter's 

 day, or in the cool of early morning of a summer's 

 one, to drive a fast horse a twenty mile stage in 

 something like an hour and a half, I should certainly 



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