54 FOLLY OF 'HURRYING.' 



be mixed with every feed for four or five days after 

 purgation has ceased, or a troublesome astringency 

 of the bowels may ensue. 



Begin immediately to give four quarterns of oats, 

 and lessen the hay to 6 lbs., and recommence walking 

 two hours in the morning and evening during the 

 ensuing week, when one fourth of your time will have 

 expired without even a canter. 



Never mind ! Better go a-head slowly yet surely, 

 than begin rapidly, undergo check after check, and 

 finally end by nursing your patient a full week before 

 running, and then give out that he has ' gone amiss,' 

 which would be better interpreted has been ' hounded 

 to a standstill ! ' 



Now then you have hardened your horse's muscles 

 by long and repeated walks, you have cleaned his skin 

 by good grooming ; and, last and not least, you have 

 relieved his overloaded system and removed the in- 

 flammatory symptoms produced by change of work and 

 diet. And rest assured that there is something gained, 

 that you have not been standing still, but have been 

 rapidly preparing the whole machinery of your horse's 

 frame for hard work ; and hard work, without prepara- 

 tion, is not only worse than useless, but absolutely 

 dangerous and cruel in the extreme. 



QUICK WORK. 

 Now we have arrived at by far the most difficult 

 part of our undertaking. When the horse is under- 

 going quick work, the eyes should be strained to 



