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Provide conveniently also several blankets and parts 

 of blankets or cloths, to wrap up the entire body, 

 neck, and legs. These should be conveniently at 

 hand, so as to envelop the animal as soon as possi- 

 ble after having been thoroughly chilled. Then 

 standing the animal where the water will conveniently 

 run off, proceed gently to pour the water over the 

 animal from a pitcher, in a moderate stream. Two 

 persons can do it best, each with pitchers, being 

 constantly replenished from the buckets behind 

 them, at the rate of a bucketful each in three or four 

 minutes, pouring the stream from the top of the 

 head, so on along down the neck and spine, con- 

 stantly changing the direction of the streams and 

 keeping them running over the animal, until he is 

 thoroughly chilled, through and through, and shakes 

 and trembles violently. This is the criterion, and the 

 streams must be kept up until this is accomplished, 

 whether it requires twenty minutes or two hours, or 

 longer. 



As soon as this is accomplished, and the horse 

 shakes and trembles violently, remove him to a com- 

 fortable place, wipe off the superfluous water, and 

 wrap him in blankets from head to heels, enveloping 

 the neck and muzzle, body and limbs, in several 

 folds, pinning them closely and throwing an extra 

 one, or buffalo-robe, over the whole, to invite the 

 return of warmth and perspiration. Usually, and if 

 the animal has been thoroughly chilled, with return 

 of warmth, perspiration will break out all over him, 



