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livers them. Balls, as a rule, call for no other apparatus than the hand. 

 Moreover, it causes delay at starting, if there are twenty or thirty drinks 

 to be previously mixed, bottled, labeled, incased in paper and so packed 

 as to be in no peril of breakage ; whereas any number of balls can be 

 almost instantaneously transferred from the drawer in the surgery into 

 the gig at the door. 



The usual mode of giving a drink is, moreover, a complex business. 

 A twitch is mostly kept in regularly appointed stables, and the string or 

 loop is fixed over the animal's upper jaw, prior to other measures being 

 proceeded with. The groom then grasps the stick and takes his place 

 by the shoulder of the horse. At a previously arranged signal, he raises 

 the pole ; the string, paining the gums under which it is fixed, causes 

 the head of the quadruped to be elevated. Supposing the horn having 

 the larger mouth to be employed, the drink is then emptied into the 

 hollow of this rude appliance until the Kquid nearly fills the interior. 

 The fluid is next carried upward, two fingers of the operator's left hand 

 being fastened on to the gums, so as to further expand the jaws and 

 enable the veterinary surgeon to steady his body while straining to ad- 

 minister the medicine. The large end is pushed into the quadruped's 

 mouth, and, by a sudden movement of the wrist, the contents of the 

 horn are meant to be splashed upon the animal's tongue. 



THE COMMON FORM OF THE HORN EMFLOTED 

 TO ADMINISTER DRINKS. 



AN IMPROVED FORM OF HORN. 



This, which is the more common method of administering a drink, is 

 open to several objections. The horn, being of a limited capacity, can 

 hold but a small quantity; and the lengthened time required for fre- 

 quent replenishing, necessitates that the animal should be long held in 

 an attitude of unnatural constraint. In the next place, the fluid is, by 

 the action of the wrist, rather rudely thrown, than gently emptied, into 



