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loose at night, or many an hour's sleep will be 

 lost from fear to lie down. I have seen many 

 horses thrown completely out of spirits, and some 

 out of condition, solely from this cause. 



Look after your horse yourself: make much 

 of him always on mounting and on dismounting ; 

 and see that he is made comfortable in his stall : 

 by these means a bad-tempered horse will grow 

 fond of you.* 



CHANGE FROM STABLING TO THE OPEN AIR, 

 HUNTING, ETC. 



As walled-in stables are now universal in every 

 cantonment, and as little probability exists that 

 you will alter those attached to your habitation 

 to that form of structure most congenial to a 

 horse's health, you may easily suppose, that when 

 brought from one of these warm stalls to sleep 

 in the open air in the cold weather, and no pre- 

 cautions taken, illness of some kind, as a matter 

 of course, will follow. A warm bed-blanket, head 



* Lawrence, vol. i. p. 279. " The tempers of horses, like 

 those of their masters, are various, endowed with a greater or 

 less proportion of intelligence, sagacity, and feeling; and 

 it is but too often the beast evinces the greater degree of 

 rationality." 



