344 HUNTERS. 



When the fevcrity of the weather, as 

 raifi, frojl, or /now, prevents horfes of this 

 defcription from being watered in fuch way, 

 the only prudent alternative (to avoid every 

 inconvenience) is to furnifh them with [oft 

 water from fuch receptacles in the ftable, 

 either in its natural ftate, or with the chill 

 taken off, as the feafon and circumftances 

 may require -, letting the fubjed: almoft im- 

 mediately undergo a brilk brufliing over for 

 a quarter of an hour or more, to enliven the 

 circulation and prevent the difagreeable fen- 

 fations of rigor and the effed of obftruded 

 perfpiration. 



It now becomes neceiTary we revert once 

 more to the fubjed of exercise; upon 

 the utility of which, we have already en- 

 larged, under its diftind head, and from 

 its numerous advantages and indifpenfable 

 neceffity, cannot, in fad, be afraid of in- 

 troducing too much ; it is the very foun- 

 tain of health, appetite, and invigoration, 

 without which an horfe can never be ade- 

 quate to the purpofe intended. Proper ex- 

 ercife for horfes, denominated hunters, 

 and appropriated to no other ufe, (hould 



be 



