344 HUNTERS. 



When the severity of the weather, as 

 rain^ frost, or snoio, prevents horses of this 

 description from being watered in such way, 

 the only prudent alternative (to avoid every 

 inconvenience) is to furnish them with. s,oft 

 water from such receptacles in the stable, 

 either in its natural state, or with the chill 

 taken off, as the season and circumstances 

 may require ; letting the subject almost im- 

 mediately undergo a brisk brushing over for 

 a quarter of an hour or more, to enliven the 

 circulation, and prevent the disagreeable sen- 

 sations of rigor and the effect of obstructed 

 perspiration. 



It now becomes necessary we revert once 

 more to the subject of exercise ; upon 

 the utility of which we have already en- 

 larged, under its distinct head, and, from 

 its numerous advantages and irulispensable 

 necessiity, cannot, in fact, be afraid of in- 

 troducing too much: it is the very foun- 

 tain of heahh, appetite, and invigoration, 

 without which a horse can never be ade- 

 quate to the purpose intended. Proper ex- 

 ercise for horses denominated hunters, 

 4nd appropriated to no other. use, should 



