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out, and the noife of thofe (tones will make the 

 horfe go after he is utterly tired ; but if that 

 fail, you (hall with a knife make a hole in the 

 flap of the horfe 's ear, and thruft a long rough 

 ft ick, full of nicks, through the fame, and ever 

 as the horfe flacks his pace, fo faw and fret the 

 flick up and down in the hole ; and be fure 

 whilft he hath any life he will not leave going. 

 Many other torments there are," &c. &c. 



Of the falling of the Crejl, p. 175. 



" The falling of the horfe 's creft, is, when the 

 upper part of a horfe's neck, which is called 

 the creft, leaneth either to the one or the other 

 fide, and will not ftand upright, as it ought to 

 do. It proceedeth, mod commonly, from 

 poverty, and very hard keeping," &c. Here 

 follows one cure by firing ; then he proceeds 

 — " Other farriers ufe for this infirmity, firft 

 to caft the horfe upon fome foft dunghill, or 

 other eafy place, and with a knife to cut away 

 the fleih on the hanging or under fide of the 

 creft, even from the fore end thereof to the 

 hinder end, fix inches broad and two inches 

 thick, or fomewhat more in the middle thereof 

 where it is thickeft ; then groping the creft 

 with your hands, to pare the thickeft part 

 thereof till it come all to one thinnefs; then 

 holding the horfe ftill faft bound, to cover all 



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