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aid, men become more acquainted with each
other; he not only bears us through foreign climes,
but likewife labours in the culture of our foil;
draws our burdens and ourfelves; carries us for
our amufement and our exercife; and both in the
fports of the field and on the turf, exerts himfelf
with an emulation, that evinces how eagerly am-
bitious he is to pleafe and to gratify the defires of
his mailer.

  lie is both our flave and our guardian; he gives
profit to the poor, and pleafure to the rich; in our
health he forwards our concerns, and in our fick-
ncfs lends his willing aflifiance for our recovery.


  This fine, this fpirited animal participates with
nan the toils of the campaign, and the glory of
conqueft; penetrating and undaunted as his maf-
ter, he views dangers, and braves them; accuf.
tomed to the din of arms, he loves it with cnthu-
fiafrn, feeks it with ardour, and feems to vie with
his mailer in his animated efforts to meet the foe
with intrepidity, and to conquer every thing that
oppofes itfelf to his matchlefs courage,



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