98 PHYSICKING. 



off, and mixed with boiling water, it is ready 

 at once. No animal, and no man either, has so 

 nice and delicate a taste for drink as a healthy 

 horse ; and if the water is the least smoked, 

 or the gruel should get the least smoked when 

 on the fire, or the koondee it is put into be 

 the least greasy or dirty, or even, perhaps, if the 

 koondee is quite new, he will be sure to smell 

 it, and most probably refuse to drink ; and, if 

 he has not occasionally had gruel before, will 

 very likely never afterwards voluntarily swallow 

 it : now, as this is of consequence, inasmuch as 

 gruel is very necessary at times for a horse re- 

 covering from sickness, it behoves you to take 

 care and offer it him clean. Many horses will 

 turn their heads away even from clean gruel, 

 when under physic, that at other times would 

 drink a dhool full. 



MUZZLE. 



Let your muzzle be at least eight inches deep, 

 with two large holes, both full two inches in 

 diameter at the sides close to the bottom, for 

 each nostril ; and the top of it large enough to 

 put your hand in on each side. It is barbarous 

 to see the way in which some horses are half 

 suffocated with p little hard muzzle tightly drawn 



