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stream on a grassy plain ; but sometimes, in consequence of the great distance 

 from one habitable place to another, he is obliged to encamp in the midst of a 

 bog where the poor horses find either bad herbs, scarcely fit to satisfy their 

 hunger, or no food at all. After they have been unloaded, their fore legs are 

 bound together above their hoofs, so as to prevent them straying too far, 

 while their masters arrange themselves in the tent as comfortably as they can. 



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