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Obſervations on Horſes.
open air, unleſs the night after a hard chace; I allow them two or three acres of paſture to cool their bellies, and ſtretch their limbs, with a warm hovel to ſhelter them from a ſtorm, a rack, and manger, with proper proviſions to keep them in heart, and a freſh ſpring of water in the ſame field, to quench their thirſt. I have known a gelding, with this regimen, to be found, freſh, and in full vigour, after ten years the hardeſt hunting; and I dare promiſe him that ſhall try, to find ſuch a one as far beyond the fine-cloathed, thin-ſkinned Courſer, cæteris paribus, as a rough Plowman is fitter for buſineſs than a ſoft-handed Beau.Huntsman.
