Class I. HORSE. ii 



winter. But we, by the abfurd and cruel cuftom 

 of docking, a pradlice peculiar to our country, de- 

 prive thefe animals of both advantages : in the laft 

 v/ar our cavalry fuftered lb much on that account, 

 that we now ieem fenfibie of the error, and if we 

 may judge from ibme recent orders in refpedl to 

 that branch of the fervice*, it will for the future 

 be correded. 



Thus is the horfe provided againft the two great- 

 eft evils he is fubjed to from the feafons : his na- 

 tural difeafes are few ; but our ill ufage, or negled, 

 or, which is very frequent, our over care of him, 

 bring on a numerous train, which are often fatal. 



* The following remark of a noble writer on this fubjecl is 

 too fenfibie to be omitted. 



* I mull own I am not polTefred with the EngUJh rage of c-at- 



* ting off all extremities from horfes. I venture to declare I 



* fhould be well pleafed if their tails, at leall a fwitch or a 



* nag tail, (but better if the whole) was left on. It is hardly 



* credible what a diiference, efpeciaily at a certain feafon of 



* the year, this fingle alteration would make in our cavalry, 



* which though naturally fuperior to all other I have ever 



* feen, are however, long before the end of the campaign, 



* for want of that natural defence againft the flies, inferior to 



* all : conftantly fweating and fretting at the picquet, tor- 



* mented and Itung oft their meat and flomachs, miferable 



* and helplefs ; while the foreign cavalry brulh oft the ver- 



* min, are cool and at eafe, and mend daily, inftead of pe- 

 ' rifhing as ours do almoll vifibly in the eye of the be- 

 « holder.' 



Method of breaking Horfes, &c. by Henry Earl of 

 Pembroke y p. 68. 



Among 



