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ters. For so soon as the horse has been thus 

 permitted to glut liimself with an immode- 

 rate quantity of the cold water before men- 

 tioned, he is directly consigned to his stalls 

 where its injurious effects are presently visi- 

 ble in a severe rigor, or violent fit of shaking, 

 not unlike the painful paroxysm of an inter- 

 mittent ; producing an almost instantaneous 

 contraction of the cutaneous passages, and 

 '' staring of the coat'* (as it is called), when 

 yve observe 



'' Each particulcir hair to stand on end 

 ^' Like quills upon the fretful porcupine." 



The alternative to this practice is so tho- 

 roughly contemptible, that it is absolutely 

 difficult to decide which is the more destruc- 

 tive or dangerous of the two ; for if the plan 

 above described is not adopted, but at times 

 admits of variation, it is directly in the fol- 

 lowing way ; the horse thus watered is im- 

 mediately mounted by one of the juvenile 

 ragamiiffijis, who constantly give daily attend- 

 ance at those receptacles, to obtain a pro- 

 ficiency in the arts of riding, cruelty, and 

 persecution. Two or three of the horses at 



