196 STABLING. 



misery may be rendered perfect by every ad- 

 ditional contribution of folly, each horse is 

 absolutely loaded with a profusion of body- 

 ■€loths, but perhaps more to gratify the osten- 

 tation or display the opulence of the owner, 

 than any intentional utility to the horse. 

 The sheet, quarter piece, breast-cloth, body 

 roller, and perhaps the hood, are all brought 

 forward to give proof of persevering atten- 

 tion and unremitting indu^ry. In this state 

 such horses are found, upon critical ex- 

 amination, to be in an almost perpetual lan- 

 guid perspiration; so debilitated, depressed, 

 and inactive, for want of pure air and regular 

 exercise, that they appear dull, heavy, and 

 inattentive, as if conscious of their imprison- 

 ment and bodily persecution. 



Tlte effect of this mode of treatment soon 

 becomes perceptible to the judicious eye of 

 observation ; the carcase is seen unnaturally 

 full and overloaded, for want of those gra- 

 dual evacuations promoted by gentle mo- 

 tion ; the legs swell, becoming stiff and 

 tumefied, till nature, in her utmost efforts 

 for extravasation, terminates in either cmrfe, 

 scratches, grease, or some one of the many 



