180 UNASKED ADVICE. 



Being staked is the hunter's accident par excellence. In 

 such a case return the intestine if it protrudes, and make 

 a bandage of girths and your own waistcoat. If the 

 horse be very restless, or if he kicks, tie up a fore leg 

 until the bandage is complete ; then lead him slowly to a 

 stable. If the intestine cannot be returned, or if it be 

 injured itself, your horse will probably die, and that 

 pretty quickly. A stake elsewhere than in the belly kills 

 from loss of blood ; and if the bleeding be excessive, no 

 amateur can do much. Of course professional assistance 

 must be sought in ah 1 these cases ; without it, in any but 

 the slightest cases, death is all but a certainty ; and with 

 it a large percentage will end fatally. This ends my list 

 of hunters' ailments, and my readers may remark with 

 truth that they have heard no news also that my chief 

 remedy seems letting injuries alone to cure themselves. 

 Well, there is nothing new under the sun, and, knowing 

 as I do the number of men as well as horses who have 

 found remedies worse than diseases, I always like to give 

 Nature a chance where I can, in preference to her 

 younger sister, Art. And I would advise my young 

 friends to do the same, Dame Nature being a person 

 whose experience exceeds any of ours, though she has 

 never attended a college, and indeed I may say is all but 

 unknown in such places ! 



