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experiments, and have come to a conclusion that is bound 

 to meet with doubt, possibly scorn, from those who always 

 doubt, and from the ignorant and unthinking. But I am 

 satisfied of the truth of my discovery. 



' Everybody who loves horses and observes their ways will 

 have noticed that after a long and fatiguing journey, or 

 sustained and tiresome work, the horse will rub his nose, 

 first on the inside of one foreleg and again on the other, 

 tossing his head meanwhile, throwing it about and taking 

 long deep breaths of relief and satisfaction. 



*I believe that Nature has furnished to our domestic slave, 

 the noblest of all God's brute creation, her vinaigrette and 

 restorative. When the weary, over-taxed animal, sweating 

 at every pore, and covered with foam, can reach down and 

 rub with his wet nose this always dry hard substance, he is 

 instantly refreshed with an odour like that of geranium. 

 Tossing his head with delight, and sniffing perceptibly, he 

 applies again and again his wet nose to this bountiful, 

 secret and cunningly arranged restorative, and is thus forti- 

 fied and strengthened sufficiently to resume his journey.' 



And have you really tested this wonderful theory to your 

 own satisfaction ? 



'To test my belief I removed from one of my horses 

 these warts in the foreleg, over which the skin grew healthily, 

 but the horse never showed the same endurance, and his 

 value was diminished by half. In another case, when I 

 experimented an eruption broke out over the healing 

 wound, and the poor animal soon grew so lame and useless 

 that he had to be shot, a sacrifice to science. These two 

 experiments were sufficient, I think, to test the wonderful 

 truth of what I have said. By wetting the fingers and 

 rubbing them on these dry warts the unmistakable odour of 



