THE HORSE : ITS KEEP AND MANAGEMENT. 65 



it is almost an impossibility to keep them nice, as when 

 they get so hot and perspire the hair becomes rough and 

 wrinkled. I deal more fully with this matter in the chapter 

 on clipping horses. Sometimes when a horse is neglected 

 in the way of cleaning, it causes sore shoulders through 

 dust and perspiration being left unheeded on the animal. 

 This is often the case with many costermongers' horses and 

 others, which have no care taken of them. Then again, 

 there is another thing which often happens when people 

 take no notice of the horse's collar. That is the dust 

 becomes matted very hard inside the collar, making it 

 very rough, which often causes the animal to have sore 

 shoulders. This is especially seen in the case of cart or 

 other draught horses, also in those used by butchers, bakers, 

 and costermongers, who are oftentimes so busy that they take 

 little or no heed whatever until they find the horse's shoulder 

 is sore. This is not only cruel, but expensive to the owner, 

 as the animals are often laid by for a week, or perhaps 

 a month, whereas if a little forethought were used all 

 this might be avoided. 



