234 The Management and Treatment of the Horse, 



contrive to locate during the winter and to the end of the 

 following spring on the mucous of the stomach, by which 

 time they attain a fully-grown size, and must then, ac- 

 cording to the law of Nature, undergo a new transformation. 

 They quit their hold of the coating of the stomach and 

 are carried along with the food, from thence they pass 

 *■'■ into the intestinal canal along with chyme, and are at 

 length discharged with it. These caterpillars thus 

 evacuated seek an appropriate place in the ground, where 

 they assume a chrysalis condition ; remaining in this 

 state for some weeks they at length break out from their 

 swathing and assume the form of a perfect insect ; im- 

 mediately after this the male and female pair. The latter 

 becoming impregnated sets about seeking an appropriate 

 place to deposit its eggs, which in imitation of the parent 

 they fix on the hair of the horses' legs, to become in their 

 turn a pest to the horse. The treatment I have given 

 elsewhere for worms should be adopted for these pests. 



According to my promise in a previous page I will 

 proceed to give a few hints about buying horses, and will 

 endeavour to expose some of the tricks that are resorted 

 to by unprincipled horse-copers and dealers. Little do 

 novices in horse-flesh know or think how many tricks are 

 resorted to by dishonest dealers to conceal the defects of 

 a horse and take in the uninitiated. To exhibit a few 

 of these will be the aim of this paper, and if it is not 

 pleasant to those who make a living by the practice of 

 unfair means to deceive the unwise, I offer no apology to 

 them, for if the cap fits they may wear it. The first 

 thing for a man about to purchase a horse is to attend 

 to its form, which differs materially in various breeds, 



