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of years, lias proved that tliey may be trusted ; but confidence, 
and confidence under such circumstances, will not be forced ; it 
must be the slow growth of careful observation. A new and a 
young man may not have sufficient patience to wait until the 
fruit is matured ; or, if he be not a man of a thousand, the fruit 
may be suddenly blighted by some incautious but venial error. 
Without, therefore, any impeachment of the character of 
our profession, we may cease to be surprised, that no young 
veterinarian has succeeded there. lie had not sufficiently con¬ 
sidered the difficulties which he would have to encounter ; he 
was not aware of the dangers which beset him on every side, 
and of the cold, reserved, apparently repulsive demeanour 
which it would sometimes be necessary for him, although 
most unwillingly, to adopt. But are there not other circum¬ 
stances which would render it peculiarly difficult for a young 
veterinarian to establish himself in such a place,—circum¬ 
stances not so much dependent on himself as on the school 
whence he emanated ? 
We will not go to the extent of our friend Turner, who main¬ 
tains that “ a man ought to be born a horseman in order to suc¬ 
ceed as a veterinary practitionerbut we do cordially agree with 
• him, that except a man has been long accustomed to the horse, 
and is perfectly at home in the stable, and in all its manipulations, 
and in the nlanagement of the horse, he will labour under great 
disadvantages, and, during many of the early years of his prac¬ 
tice, will be exposed to various circumstances of annoyance; and 
a little awkwardness in the handling or examination of the horse 
will sometimes be a crime for which no real skill can afterwards 
atone. 
We will, however, put Newmarket for a moment out of the 
question, lest our remarks should seem to be, what they really 
are not, of a personal nature. 
We had the pleasure of knowing two of those gentlemen who 
tried their fortunes there—one of them was a complete horseman 
as well as veterinary surgeon; the other had not been so much 
accustomed to horses, but he had laboured hard to acquire pro¬ 
fessional knowledge. Of the others we know nothing. But we 
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wdl leave Newmarket, and consider the general estimation in 
