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" Quite so." 



" But if he were ill, physic would be of no 

 use to him ; he refuses to be balled if I remember 

 rightly." 



" Why, the old un himself couldn't do it. 

 Such a vagary he'll kick up if you only hold out 

 a ball to him. Oh ! he's a cunning old dog." 



"Then allow me to inquire farther, if you 

 please, How did you succeed in getting him into 

 condition for hunting ?" 



The reader will understand our friend was 

 fairly caught in his own trap, and afterwards 

 always maintained a perfect silence in reference 

 to the necessity of physicking a horse's inside out 

 for the purpose of gaining condition. 



The Turkish bath is also by some used under 

 the idea that there is something always to be got 

 rid of which militates against condition, and the 

 poor creatures are parboiled and sweated un- 

 mercifully 



The art of getting a horse into condition lies 

 totally apart from either of these processes. 

 Hundreds of horses are brought forward every 

 year without them, and on the score of what can 

 be done, and is done every day of our lives, we 

 appeal for our noble servant, and beg he may be 

 spared this useless and aggravating treatment, 

 except when illness demands it. 



Condition is that state of the muscular system 

 in which the body is strong, healthy, and capable 

 of endurance under prolonged action. Muscle 



