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only instantly washed with warm water, but 

 in so doing, the necessary inspection made^ 

 whether the most trifling injuries have been 

 sustained by over-reaches^ stubs, or in lace- 

 rations between hair and hoof: while this 

 is doing a portion of hay is thrown before 

 Iiim and immediately after a pail of water^ 

 slightly warm, to allay the violent thirst al-* 

 wavs occasioned by long and severe chases. 

 The usual ceremony of dressing, feedings 

 oiling, stopping, aind other minutiae of the 

 stable is then gone through ; too systemati- 

 X^ally and generally understood to require a 

 single line of explanation* 



A perseverance in this rigidity of stable 

 discipline and attention, unbiassed by the 

 persuasion or example of others, will always 

 insure you the superiority of condition in 

 the field ; under the pleasing sensation of 

 your horse being at home, and completely 

 taken care of; when others^ less consi- 

 derate or less humane, are commencing a 

 wretched journey of ten, fifteen, or twenty 

 miles in a dreary winter^s evening ; or, 

 what is nearly upon a parallel of inconsis- 

 tency, permit them to remain in a strange 



