30 WARRANTY OF 



Bandages are good things properly applied, and 

 there is a great deal of humanity in their seasonable 

 appropriation and right use. You should remember, 

 however, that there may also be " too much of a good 

 thing/' and that by over doing the thing, or bandag- 

 ing improperly, you defeat your own purpose. 



Why is the hair on that horse's legs so curled ? I 

 can never see it without pitying the poor brute, and 

 thinking of the purgatory he has endured, through the 

 ignorance of the groom ignorance it must be ; kind- 

 ness dictated the use of bandages, but kindness did not 

 intend them to be a torture, which they become by being 

 thus tight and stopping circulation. As errors arising 

 from good nature are the easiest cured ; once show that 

 these errors cause the pain which should be prevented, 

 and they are not likely to occur again. When bandages 

 are used, they should never be drawn tightly round 

 the horse's legs, for in that case they weaken instead 

 of strengthening, and cause the hair to curl. Put 

 bandages lightly and easily round the leg ; a very little 

 keeps them up, and should they come down a hundred 

 times, it is better than that the horse should be 

 tortured once. There are very few who will not, in a 

 trifling number of applications, acquire the habit of 

 fitting them so easily that they are a great comfort 

 and very serviceable to the legs under many circum- 

 stances, and will not curl the hair or leave unsightly 

 marks ; nor will they, when thus properly put on, 

 punish the horse, or slip down. 



