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out his fore-legs, and go light in hand, and be 

 proper walking exercise ; while the gora-walla 

 will not be too tired to clean him well when 

 he comes in. There is not half so much danger 

 of your horse falling down when the gora-walla 

 is on his back, riding in this way, as when he 

 is slouching by his side, allowing the head every 

 minute to come within a foot of the ground. A 

 horse should only be led (except in training) 

 when he is too sick, or too weak, or too tired 

 to be ridden ; and then, if it is the cold weather, 

 the jhool in the morning's walk should be kept 

 on ; but walking exercise at other seasons of the 

 year, with clothing on, when the thermometer 

 is ninety, or more, is enough to put any horse 



DANGER OF OVERFEEDING. 



Condition is not the work of a week ; it will 

 often take half a year for a horse that is thin, 

 or fresh from the stables, and if you attempt 

 to fatten too quickly by grain, before the strength 

 will admit of your giving proportionate exercise, 

 the stomach, unable to digest a large quantity, 

 will be weakened ; thus the grain will often pass 

 whole, and the horse fall off instead of improv- 

 ing, or he will grow dull, heavy, and gross. And 



