180 UNASKED ADVICE. 



Being staked is the hunter's accident j^ar excellence. In 

 such a case return the intestine if it protrudes, and make 

 a bandage of girths and your own waistcoat. If the 

 horse be very restless, or if he kicks, tie up a fore leg 

 until the bandage is complete ; then lead him slowly to a 

 stable. If the intestine cannot be returned, or if it be 

 injured itself, your horse will probably die, and that 

 pretty quickly. A stake elsewhere than in the belly kills 

 from loss of blood ; and if the bleeding be excessive, no 

 amateur can do much. Of course professional assistance 

 must be sought in all these cases ; without it, in any but 

 the slightest cases, death is all but a certainty ; and with 

 it a large percentage will end fatally. This ends my list 

 of hunters' ailments, and my readers may remark with 

 truth that they have heard no news — also that my chief 

 remedy seems letting injuries alone to cure themselves. 

 Well, there is nothing new under the sun, and, knowing 

 as I do the number of men as well as horses who have 

 found remedies worse than diseases, I always like to give 

 Nature a chance where I can, in preference to her 

 younger sister. Art. And I would advise my young 

 friends to do the same. Dame Nature being a person 

 whose experience exceeds any of ours, though she has 

 never attended a college, and indeed I may say is all but 

 unknown in such places ! 



