CHAPTEE XIX. 



OBJECTS OF SWEATING HOW FAT IMPEDES THE ACTION OF THE 



HEART AND LUNGS MANNER OF REMOVING IT RACES LOST 



BY SUPPRESSED PERSPIRATION. 



PRECEPTOR. I ani later in making my appearance this 

 morning than I expected, and came very near being the 

 cause of delaying Never Mind's work longer than would 

 have been politic. 



PUPIL. The boy has given him an hour's walk, which I 

 took the responsibility of ordering. 



PRECEPTOR. That was correct. "We can hardly over- 

 estimate the importance of being regular in the time of 

 working a horse. Trotters, perhaps, can be allowed more 

 latitude in this particular than race horses, yet the benefit 

 they experience by taking their exercises at a definite hour 

 well repays exactness in dividing our time. There is no 

 business in which regularity and order are more impera- 

 tively demanded than that of training horses. It is very 

 true we cannot reduce it to a question of performing a 

 routine of duties at the same hour and minute of the day. 

 If this were the case, training would be a simple concern, 

 capable of being done by every one who is energetic and 

 systematic. Rules could be laid down which, if followed, 

 would certainly result in success, when, in truth, the great 

 art in training is, when to change the work, feed, &c., ac- 

 cording to the wants of the horse. It might be good po- 

 licy with some horses, indeed, to change the hour of their 



