PREFACE. 3 



dicious treatment, more than if he pounced on 

 a scientific veterinary volume. These learned 

 books are but ill-adapted to a person who has 

 neither had experience, nor given the subject 

 any attention ; and they are daily misunderstood, 

 even in their most simple parts. 



If I am occasionally a little censorious, re- 

 member, this is the best mode of impressing 

 things on the memory ; and if you are of opi- 

 nion that the contents are very generally known, 

 I can only say, that it is a great pity they are not 

 more generally practised : at the same time, I 

 may inform you, this is not written for those 

 who do know, but for those who do not, so that 

 for the future we may all start even. 



I beg one favour — that you will not be so 

 inconsistent as to deride the contents of this 

 little treatise, and at the same time adopt the 

 precepts it contains ; and moreover, if you do, 

 take care you never invite me to inspect your 

 stud, or I will " show up" more faults in each 

 horse than you thought existed in the whole of 

 the Bomb Proof. 



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