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mode is with your pocket-knife, small blade, sharp 

 point (if not so, make it as sharp as you can on the 

 first stone you see) ; then bleed him in the mouth freely. 

 As he will swallow his blood, it will relieve him in a few 

 minutes, and probably he will not have a recurrence for 

 some time ; if he has, when you get home drench him 

 with whisky and black pepper. To explain, so that any 

 one can bleed in the mouth : standing on the left of his 

 head, you raise his upper lip with your left hand, and 

 with your right, knife blade held firmly, stick it in 

 quickly about one inch and a quarter in the gum, near 

 third bar, counting from back of front teeth. If it spurt 

 out well and bleed freely, it is enough ; if not, go to the other 

 side and try it a little deeper, always keeping the point of 

 the knife inclined a little up. I never knew a horse to 

 bleed to death, but one came very near it. It only 

 requires a finger held over the orifice, or if that does 

 not answer, a cobweb put into the outer edge of the cut 

 will do it ; this is supposing you are bleeding on the road 

 to relieve a horse from sudden pain, where no modern 

 appliances for stopping blood are to be had. 



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