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worn out, the feet bruised, and the legs sometinnes 

 sprained. If this habit does not exist to any great ex- 

 tent, yet the stable never looks well. Shackles are the 

 only renjedy. with a chain sufTiciently long to enable the 

 horse to shift his posture, or move in his stall; hut these 

 must be taken off at night, otherwise the animal will 

 seldom lie down. Except, however, the horse possesses 

 peculiar value, it will be better to dispose of him at once, 

 than to submit to the danger and inconvenience that he 

 may occasion. 



QUIDDING. 



A horse will sometimes partly chew his hay, and suf- 

 fer it to drop from his mouth. If this does not proceed 

 from irregular teeth, which it will be the business of the 

 veterinary surgeon to rasp down, it will be found to be 

 connected with sore-throat, and then the horse will ex- 

 hibit some other symptom of indisposition, and particu- 

 larly the swallowing of w^ater will be accompanied by a 

 peculiar gulping effort. In this case, the disease (catarrh, 

 with sore throat,) must be attacked, and the quidding 

 will cease. 



ROLLING. 



This is a very pleasant and perfectly safe amusement 

 for a horse at grass, but cannot be indulged in the sta- 

 ble without tl)e chance of his being dangerously en- 

 tangled with llie collar rein, and being cast. Yet, al- 

 though the horse is cast, and bruised, and half-strangled, 

 he will roll again on the following night, and continue 

 to do so as long as he lives. The only remedy is not a 

 very pleasant one to the horse, nor always quite safe ; 

 yet it must be had recourse to, if the habit of rolling is 

 inveterate. 'The horse," says Mr. Castley, "should be 

 tied with length enough of collar to lie down, but not 

 to allow of his head resting on the ground ; because, in 

 order to roll over, a horse is obliged to place his head 

 quite down upon the ground." 



