342 HUNTERS. 



weather render their watering in the stable 

 a business totally unavoidable. 



I have, in different parts of m)^ former 

 volume, said, what then became applicable 

 upon this subject ; but we now proceed 

 a few steps further, in elucidation qf ^ny 

 deficiency ; and the more particularly as 

 bur remarks constitute a link of continuity 

 to the present chain of instruction. It can 

 never have escaped the attention pf the 

 most superficial observer, what a wonderful 

 change is almost instantaneously produced 

 in the appearance and sensations of a horse, 

 by a gratification of thirst in zvell or ptimp 

 water, but more particularly if given in the 

 stable cold and in the winter season. In 

 most horses a violent shivering and staring 

 of the coat immediately succeed, and con- 

 tinue more or less without intermission : 

 those constantly supplied in this manner 

 having always a coat nearly of two colours 

 (that is one half standing on end, and the 

 other part smooth), displaying a scurfy, dusty 

 hue at the bottom, evidently the effect of a re- 

 peated coUapsion of the porous system and fre-* 

 quent obssruction of insensible perspiration. 



