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But if this fretfulness of disposition renders the 

 horse, as is very commonly the case, incapable of 

 undergoing the amount of labour due from one of 

 his class, he is then UNSOUND. 



Medicine administered to the horse, either too fre- 

 quently or in too severe doses, will, by producing 

 chronic irritation of the bowels, induce herring- 

 guttedness. This irritation accounts for the hot, 

 nervous, fidgety temper generally evinced by small- 

 barrelled horses. A horse thus suffering is UNSOUND. 



When, inversely, the small barrel is the result of 

 fretfulness and fidgety temper produced by cruel treat- 

 ment, continued kindness, such as the horse has a 

 natural right to expect, will soon restore him to good 

 temper, and his barrel will resume its proper pro- 

 portions ; in this case the horse is SOUND. 



When a horse is so hot-tempered as to be dangerous 

 to ordinary users, if he has been warranted quiet for 

 that particular kind of work in which he shows irrita- 

 bility, he may be returned on the score of breach 

 of warranty, as his fault is a decided VICE. 



Hot Water. 



The too frequent use of hot water, administered as a 

 drink, produces a small barrel and general debility, and 

 the horse becomes UNSOUND. 



But, as hot or warm water is often of the highest 



