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despise either. A cool headed man with a good eye, who has 

 learned to read the ears and motions of a horse, will see how to 

 keep ont of real danger, and such men are hardly ever hurt. 

 A fussy, timid, bad tempered man has no business at such work. 

 It is no doubt unwise for anyone to keep a really vicious horse, 

 but some men enjoy a daily triumph over them, or the real 

 pleasure of removing their bad habits. Only such men should 

 handle vicious horses, just as street Arabs are only successfully 

 taken in hand by ladies of a similar taste. 



i'r2. — The cart horse is a less sensitive and more patient 

 animal, whose thicker skin is deeply covered with hair. They 

 are seldom troublesome to clean, and the cleansing they get is 

 generally of a superficial character. The long continuous 

 exercise they take in the open air, is more favourable to the 

 expulsion of waste, both by the skin and the lungs, whilst such 

 very high condition is not demanded by an animal whose lungs 

 are le?s severely tried, and whose daily exertions are spread over 

 eight or ten hours. 



68. — A long neglected skin will be got into good order 

 most quickly by a few good washings. For this purpose the 

 horse should be made very hot with exercise — the hotter the 

 better — then quickly and thoroughly washed and scrubbed with 

 warm water, scraping the water well out of his hair with a 

 piece of hoop iron, and riding or moving him about in the open 

 air until quite dry. The fear of taking cold after the use of 

 warm water on either horses or men is only one of the bug-bears 

 that are kept up to prevent the use of water. Neither horse nor 

 man will readily take cold on a really clean skin, w'hether made 

 so by warm or cold watei-, and the child just out of its daily 

 warm bath may roll in snow with far more safety than the child 

 who has had no bath at all. Very warm water will injure the 

 appearance of any hair for some hours or days afterwards. 



04. — The practice w^hicli nature has taught the horse to 

 adopt to clean his own skin has probably many advantages beyond 

 those which we can see, and is one that should not he entirely 

 ignored by those whose aim it is to keep the horse in the highest 

 possible state of health. However well a horse maybe cleaned 



