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frequently be washed and scrubbed out with soap, 

 or sand and water. Nose-bags are, at the best, a 

 necessary evil, and if they have to be used at all, 

 canvas ones are better than leather, being more 

 easily cleaned. I only allowed nose-bags to be 

 used when on the march, or out in camp ; when in 

 the stable the horses were fed out of an ordinary 

 bucket, or else a manger, and even then they 

 were not fastened on the head, but held on the 

 ground. 



Mangers (kurlie). 



In the stable a manger should be used. In 

 an Indian stable one is easily made out of a 

 shallow, wide-mouthed earthen vessel ("gumalo"), 

 built up with mud, about three feet high, in the 

 corner. The "syces" can do this themselves, and 

 the gumalo only costs a few pence in the bazaar. 

 I always had two built in opposite corners, one for 

 food and the other for water. If for any reason 

 the manger cannot be built, or there is not one in 

 the stable, then the horse should be fed out of a tin 

 or zinc bucket, or else off a feeding- sheet. An old 

 gunney-bag, spread out opened at the seams, answers 

 admirably. The " syce " should hold the bucket or 

 sheet while he is feeding, or the horse is very likely 



