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WARBLES 



Are those small swellings or tumours 

 formed on the sides, or some part of the 

 back of a horse, either by the excessive heat 

 and friction in a long chase, the extreme pres- 

 sure of some hard or protuberant part in the 

 stuffing of the saddle, or the edge of a narrow 

 saddle-cloth coming directly under the seat 

 of the rider ; and very frequently by the cent, 

 per cent, care and catition of the saddler, iu 

 the economical length of his girths ; for 

 being sometimes by much too short, the 

 buckles at eitlier one side or the other sit 

 below the pad; and what is worse, half on 

 and half off; by which means the lower 

 corners of the buckles con-nitute this incon- 

 venience to a certainty, as I have repeatedly 

 experienced. But let them proceed from 

 which of these causes they may, I shall in 

 the cure pass over the sublimity of Capt. 

 Bur don's fertile invention of the " hot 

 greasy dish-clout, ''as unnecessary; also Bart- 

 let's servilitij and sierility in echoing so 

 GREASY an idea; but as every extensive 

 reader upon this subject must have ob-- 



