4 PREFACE. 



To enable you, condescending reader, who may 

 read for instruction, to purchase a casty, sound, 

 and useful Arab ; to keep him in condition al- 

 ways fit for work ; to take your gallop out of 

 him without injury, or to bring him on the 

 turf ; and to prevent your inflicting unnecessary 

 pain when illness overtakes him, is the object 

 of 



THE GRIFFIN'S AID-DE-CAMP, 



IN FOUR PARTS. 



I. Purchasing from the Stables, etc. 



II. The Age, the Pulse, Bleeding, Phy- 

 sicking, Shoeing. 



III. Putting into Condition. Training. 



IV. Treatment of a few Diseases. 



