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certain — or, rather, ?«icertain — penalties, since the railway servants habitu- 

 ally disregard them. 



Besides the horse-box there is the ordinary truck, which dealers, ever 

 ready to accept additional risk in order to effect an economy, usually employ 

 to convey their purchases on the often long journeys from fairs and markets. 

 The truck is better cleansed and kept in a much more wholesome condition 

 than the more expensive box, as for some reason the Animals Orders in 

 connection with cattle are more respected, and these conveyances are fre- 

 quently whitewashed and otherwise disinfected. 



They hold some half-dozen horses, and the object of the consignor in 

 packing them as closely as possible is to prevent them from kicking one 

 another. In the use of the horse-box there is no rule as to having the hind 

 shoes off, but it is a sort of lex non scripta of the truck, and usually insisted 

 upon on board ship, but not on so-called horse " boats ". 



There is a special order issued by the Board of Agriculture with regard 

 to watering horses on railway journeys by which the respective companies 

 are made responsible, but owners have been prosecuted for not feeding 

 animals on the journey while beyond their own control and detained on 

 the road by some ftiilure on the part of the carriers to deliver within 

 reasonable time. 



