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your leather dhool : gora- wallas are always put- 

 ting currycombs, brushes, and old shoes, in a 

 wooden tub ; besides, a tub is not half so nice 

 as an old dhool, tinged with moss-like green 

 from the continual use of water. A new tub 

 should have a few shavings burnt in it before 

 being used, and if once taken to wash the feet, 

 a delicate horse will smell it for a week. 



CORDIAL BALLS, HORSE-BREAD, ETC. 



The belly is sometimes a trifle larger than 

 is altogether compatible with training ; the horse 

 may not be at all too fat, occasionally the con- 

 trary, but the belly droops a little. Feed more 

 liberally, both on grain and grass, if the bowels 

 will stand it, and give a cordial every other morn- 

 ing ; but even if with this rather drooping belly 

 he should carry too much flesh, neither the grain, 

 grass, nor water are to be stinted ; (over-feeding, 

 which is worse, you have been before warned 

 against.) Give, in this case, six of the altera- 

 tive balls, p. 101, one every other evening on 

 return from his walk, and sweat gently once 

 a-week. The belly will go up of itself, if you 

 are not in a hurry. 



If the dung becomes too lax, or you find 



