PIIEFA.CE. 



The favourable manuer in which the former 

 edition of my work was reviewed by the press 

 and the extensive patronage accorded to it by 

 the public (all the copies being sold within three 

 months of publication), have induced me to 

 issue a thoroughly revised and enlarged edition 

 of the book, to which I have added a series of 

 illustrations, hoping thereby to make it more 

 valuable. 



I wish here to impress on my readers that my 

 work is not at all of a scientific nature, being 

 simply the practical experience of one who has 

 spent his life amongst horses, who has had oppor- 

 tunities of seeing the horse in all conditions of 

 sickness and health, in the stable, on the road, 

 and in the field, and who has often been made 

 miserable at the sight of the pain inflicted by 

 the thoughtless and ignorant. 



