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Excerpt from On Horseshoeing, Vol. 18
The patriarch of the lot, who was bred only five miles from Exe ter, has just completed his fortieth year; his early history does not redound to his credit; he was a very unruly, unmanageable brute, and was perpetually changing masters for running away and kicking carriages to pieces; two hackney men in succession tried him, but were obliged to part with him; at length he was handed over to the tender mercies of a commercial traveller, whose long journeys through Devon and Cornwall, after a few years, subdued him, and he became a very useful horse, and at the age of fourteen was sold to a friend of mine, from whom I purchased him exactly twenty years ago. He is a high stepper and remarkably handsome, and if you do not look in his mouth his general appearance would pass muster for nine or ten years old; he is perfectly quiet out of the stable, but he had been so teazed and worried all his life, until he came into my hands, that even now he will not permit a stranger to enter his box alone. The next in seniority is twenty-nine years old, and is the best back I ever rode. Seventeen years ago, the smith who usually shod him declared his feet to be so far gone that he could shoe him no longer; and he was on the point of being shot, as used up, and quite done for, when I came to the rescue, and accepted him as a present, with the View of trying what I could do to put him on his feet again, and the result of my trial has been seventeen years of very efficient service.
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