INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER. 15 



the place with great handfuls of fwines-dung, 

 prepared for the purpofe, and hold it to the 

 fore place an hour together, until the blood be 

 f launched ; then let the horfe arife, and lead 

 him into the liable, tying him in fuch fort, that 

 he may neither rub his neck nor lie down ; 

 then the next morning take good (lore of burnt 

 allum, beaten to powder, and drew it all over 

 the fore place, and fo let him Hand for two 

 days after, without any (lining, left the wound 

 fhould bleed again, Sec. &c. — which done, you 

 (hall to thofe plats with thongs of leather, 

 fallen a cudgel of a foot and half long : then 

 to the midft of that cudgel you fhall hang a 

 piece of lead, with a hole in it, of fuch weight 

 as will poife the creft up even, and hold it in 

 its right place. Then (hall you draw his creft 

 on that fide the weight hangs, with a hot draw- 

 ing iron, even from the top of the creft down 

 to the point of the fhoulder, making divers 

 ftrokes one inch and an half from another ; then 

 (hall you lay upon the burnt places a plaifter 

 of pitch, tar, and rofin, melted together; and 

 fo let the weight hang till all the fore places 

 be healed, and there is no queftion but the creft 

 will ftand both upright and ftrongly." 



I am forry to fay, that I have given but a 

 moderate fpecimen of the cruelties formerly 

 inflicted upon this brave and unoffending 

 animal : but inftead of irritating our ferifihility 



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