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a hollow roll of paper, light one end, and fumigate the warts with it 

 for about an hour and a half, for three days. 



Girth G-all. — Should your horse get girth-galled, it is a slight 

 matter and no cause for anxiety. Remedij : soak paper in water 

 and place the paper on the wound underneath the girth, till a cure 

 is effected. 



KoARiNG. — The following is a proved receipt for roaring.^ 

 Take two or three pounds of onions, and cut about half a pound of 

 them into thin slices and sprinkle with two told of salt. Give 

 twice daily about three hours after watering. If after eight days 

 there is some improvement, continue the treatment, otherwise stop 

 it. You need not be afraid of the remedy being too stimulating ; 

 you can continue the treatment after a cure appears to have been 

 effected. I have frequently tried this receipt. Item : take 2 ozs. 

 of dried pan or betel-leaves, and at break of day place them 

 to soak in your urine, and give in the evening after the feed. Do 

 this for several days. This receipt was given to me by Miyan 

 Baqi, and I have often put it to the proof. Perhaps the reader 

 will ask: " What is a roarer {sherdam) ? " My answer is : ''Gallop- 

 it and see. Should it pant much it is a roarer." 



CHAPTER XVIII 



MISCELLANEOUS 



To Make a Backward Stallion Cover. — Should a stallion decline 

 to cover'' a mare, try this remedy to bring the two together : 

 dip your hand in the defiled earth of the mare's standing^ and 

 then rub well into the stallion's nostrils : in a few days the stallion 

 will become keen. 



To Quiet a Stallion. — To cool a stallion's passion sprinkle cold 

 water on its testicles ■' about ten times a day. This will soothe its 

 sexual excitement. 



Marks of Good Breeding. — For breeding, select a stallion with 



1 Sher-dam honu, " to roar " ; sher-daml, subs. 



2 Dapatnd, tr. " to gallop a horse (of the rider)." 

 '^ Ghori par chhiitnd, intr. 



* Mutdl'i, the place whore a horse urinates. 



" Foja, sing., " the scrotum," and in the pi., vulgarly, " testicles." 



