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demonstration of the dangers of the system. The 

 boys will not be always under this severe control, 

 and yet it is important to their safety. 



We may learn how necessary it is to bring the 

 animal system gradually into action from the 

 effects of very moderate exercise on a horse just 

 out of the dealer's hands. The purchaser thinks 

 he may safely drive him ten miles, not aware 

 that the horse has not moved a mile in a week, 

 and the consequence is, inflammation and conges- 

 tion in his lungs. The regulation in the army 

 has been made on a knowledge of these facts. 

 When young horses are brought from the dealer 

 they are ordered to be walked an hour a day the 

 first week, two hours a day the second week, 

 three hours a day in the third week. They are 

 to be fatigued by walking, but they must not be 

 sweated in their exercise. Horses for the turf, 

 under three years old, in training for the Derby, 

 are brought very slowly to their exercise, begin- 

 ning with the lounge ; then a very light weight 

 is put upon them, and that gradually increased. 

 Indeed, nothing can better show the effects of ex- 

 ercise in perfecting the muscular action than the 

 consequence of the loss of one day's training. It 

 will bring the favorite to the bottom of the list, 

 and that without any suspicion of lameness, but 

 from a knowledge of the fact, that even such a 



