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■whatattentionyoufindit necessary to bestow, 

 for no horse whatever, after a severe run, 

 should be placed in a stable, or suffered to 

 stand still, till the increased velocity of the 

 blood and the consequent perspiration ha(| 

 gradually subsided toit§ former temperance. 



When your place of temporary eonveni-? 

 lence is obtained, let it be only thirty or forty 

 minutes at most, for the following purposes 

 of evacuation and nutrition ; see that the 

 stable, and the stall in that stable, are made 

 as near the warmth of your own as circum- 

 stanoies will permit ; let the bridle be taken 

 off, a handful of sweet hay thrown before 

 him, the girths slackened, and the S2iddle just 

 loosened only from the back, to which it may 

 adhere closely by the long-continued perspi- 

 ration ; let a sheet (or such substitute as the 

 place affords) be thrown over his hind quar-'* 

 ters, and the litter be plentifully spread under 

 his belly, to excite a salutary discharge of 

 nrine, (by this time much wanted) observing 

 that he stales without difficulty, and displays 

 lao signs of strangury : if so, they must be 

 attended to in the manner described in the 

 former volume;, should nature be tardy in hei: 



