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to guard against them. In the summer, green food, 

 moderate allowance of corn, and turning out at night, 

 are cooling remedies always at hand ; but not so in 

 the winter : and I have always been apprehensive 

 of mischief in my stable after a long-continued frost. 

 The organs of respiration are the most likely to be 

 affected, and many horses have become roarers during 

 such a period. This is not confined to horses, for in 

 the human species pulmonary complaints are always 

 more frequent after a severe winter. 



A few days after the breaking up of the frost at the 

 latter end of 1822, a gentleman with whom I had a 

 slight acquaintance was galloping by the side of me 

 in some deep ground ; and on hearing his mare more 

 musical than she should be, and having been in the 

 habit of seeing her go to hounds before the frost set 

 in, I asked him how long she had been a roarer. He 

 seemed surprised, as well as alarmed, at the question ; 

 but the next time I met him he admitted that the 

 mischief was done. 



This circumstance, although in corroboration of 

 what I have advanced as to the evils attending long 

 rest, without measures being taken to counteract 

 them, was trifling in its consequences to another 

 which I witnessed some years ago in Leicestershire, 

 One of the most distinguished members of the Old 

 Melton Club went to town at the commencement of 

 a long frost, leaving in his stable sound and well 

 perhaps the best hunter of that day in England. On 

 his return, when the country was open, he ordered 

 this horse to the covert's side, with another for him- 



