Note 6 — ESTIMATE No. IV.
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Letting the Horses wash their Mouths, which is comfortable to them in very hot weather. If you are Travelling a long Journey, it will refresh them much more, if you at the same time give them a little bit of Hay; for these you are generally charged, for a Pair of Horses 0 6
For a Short Bait, i. e. if you go out for Ten Miles, and the Horses are put up for an hour or two, a feed, a Quartern of Corn each, including 6d. to the Hostler, is about 1 6
See more of the Estimates of Expenses in Travelling, in Part I. of the “Traveller’s Oracle.”