224 ATTENTION- TO BITTING NECESSAEY. 



method be persevered in for a few days, the vice may 

 be conquered effectually ; but great care must be taken 

 ever after that the horses are in no way hurried, and 

 also that they do not see or hear the whip, or it will 

 immediately recur again. 



Carriage horses should never be reined up too 

 tightly — even when doing short journeys ; but when 

 they are kept out for some hours, this practice becomes 

 positively cruel ; since the muscles and tendons are 

 kept in the same restrained position, which gives rise 

 to excessive pain and weariness, and very frequently 

 even to paralysis of the laryngeal nerve, and conse- 

 quently roaring. 



The coachman should, in driving either a pair or 

 four-in-hand, give great attention to his horses' mouths, 

 and have his horses properly bitted ; for unless they be 

 judiciously bitted the driver can have no control over 

 them, and every yard he drives them must be more or 

 less of grief and pain both to him and them. 



It is of almost as much importance to have horses of 

 the same kind of mouths and temperament, as of the 

 same colour, quality, and action, if they are to run to- 

 gether comfortably either in a pair or four-in-hand. 



GEOOMING. 



The first thing to be done, on returning from work, 

 is to take the horse into the stable, and remove all the 

 harness : then tie him up and throw a rug loosely over 



