PREFACE. I hear certain of my readers esclaim, What more on the well-worn subject of the Horse, from this prosing and argumentative old man - The act is indeed committed but, for the last time-new editions to old books excepted. The size of the present will not be alarming and if much novelty cannot be expected on the subject, yet that subject and all others, of necessity, vary so much with times and circumstances, as to authorise further attempts at public uti- lity. Moreover, somewhat must be conceded to an old author, on the score of reminding his patrons the public, of his former labours. The object of this little book, a galloway or poney in size, is to form a convenient manual for the use of the hitherto uninitiated, who may have neither inclination nor leisure to ride the great horse in larger volumes or whose other indispensable avocations may have precluded them from the opportunity of obtaining practical information on a subject, certainly of great and every day importance...

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