^3Z HUNTERS. 



attention you find it necelTary to bcftow ; for 

 no horfe whatever, after a fevere run, Ihould 

 be placed in a ftable, or fufFered to Hand ftill, 

 till the increafcd velocity of the blood and 

 the confequcnt perfpiraticn had gradually fub- 

 fidcd to its former temperance. 



When your place of temporary conveni- 

 ence is obtained, let it be only thirty or forty 

 minutes at moft, for the following purpofes 

 of evacuation and nutrition : fee that the 

 ftable, and the ftall in that ftable, are made 

 ^s near the warmth of your own as circum- 

 ftances will permit ; let the bridle be taken 

 off, a handful of fvveet hay thrown before 

 him, the girths flackened, and the faddley«/2 

 loofened only from the back, to which it may 

 adhere clofely by the long continued perfpi- 

 ration; let a ftieet (or fuch fubftitute as the 

 place affords) be thrown over his hind quar- 

 ters, and the litter be plentifully fpread under 

 his belly, to excite a falutary difcharge of 

 urine, (by this time much wanted) obferving 

 that he ftales without difficulty, and difplays 

 no figns of ftrangury; if fo, they muft be 

 attended to in the manner defcribed in the 

 former volume, fliould nature be tardy in her 



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