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7.— To MAKE A Horse Ghju-gosiia^ or "Four-eared" 



Cast the horse ; heat two knives red-hot and slit the ears to the 

 extent desired. Do not use a cold knife or the bleeding will be profuse ; 

 with a hot knife there will be no bleeding. 



8. — To Crop a Horse's Ears 

 (Koba-karna) " 



Cast the horse, and with a hot knife shave the inner edge of the 

 ear, that is, the edge nearer the neck, from the bottom upwards. The 

 ear will thus be made shorter and narrower. 



9. — To Make a Horse Prick-eared " 



From the root of the ears towards the centre of the head make two 

 slits, three or four fingers' breadth in length, through the skin of the 

 head. Then press together, till they join, the two ends of each slit ; sew 

 them together. Apply ointment, erect the ears, and bandage firmly. 

 When the wound is healed the ears will be erect as an arrow. 



10. — To discover whether a Horse is difficult to Shoe-^ 

 AND A Cure for the Vice 



Place the hoof on a stone and tap with another stone. If the horse 

 is fidgety, it is had na'l or difficult to shoe. By acting thus several 

 times, the horse may be cured of its vice. 



11.— To DISCOVER WHETHER A HORSE IS DUMB 



If the horse is a stallion lead a mare in front of it, then if it fails to 

 scream it is dumb. 



In the case of a mare remove her foal ; and if she keeps silent she is 

 dumb. 



12. — A " DOG-TONGUED " OR " SnAKE-TONGUED " HORSE ^ 



If the horse turns its tongae back or lets it hang out like a dog, it is 

 called " dog-tongued " or " snake-tongued." This vice it is possible to 

 cure. Seize your opportunity and suddenly brand the tongue, or else 

 scar it with a knife, or lance it ; or else attach two hooks to the port^ of 

 the bit and fasten to these two very thin chains, eight fingers' breadth in 

 length. By playing with these it will forget its vice of sag-zabdnl or 

 " dog-tonguedness." 



' Chau-goshiya was a name given to a Turkoman horse. 



- I am unable to trace the idiom koba karml. Can it be a copyist's error for 

 kotdh karnd? 



^ Kdn khard karnd. 



■* Bad-na'l, adj. 



5 Sag-zabda and mdr-zabdn. 



** Mihrdb, lit. arch. 



