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horse being the best for continued fast work, and I nave 

 to keep a higher check on you than I would, to prevent 

 you running away or, rather, blood horses running 

 away with your sense, when you claim to make trotters 

 of them. Their structure, muscular, vascular, nervous, 

 and osseous, excel all others for speed. The only point 

 at issue between us is the possession of the trotting step. 

 We will not argue about it now, and I will admit that if 

 a thoroughbred could trot as fast as a cold-blooded or 

 part-bred one, I would rather pay double the money for 

 him. 



The removal of the dandruff from the skin facilitates 

 the action of the air in this purifying process, and, you 

 say correctly, lessens greatly the labor of the lungs. There 

 is much waste from the pores of the skin that is not seen, 

 but which, nevertheless, is going on at all times. This is 

 called insensible perspiration. The evacuations from the 

 bowels and kidneys carry off the more gross residue, and 

 stoppages in their action is always a cause of alarm. 

 When the skin becomes so clogged that it does not per- 

 form its share in relieving the internal economy, the injury, 

 though not so speedily observed as from the other stop- 

 pages, will ultimately be very serious. The good resulting 

 from sweating is not confined to merely ridding the animal 

 of fat, as it increases the power of the heart, and assists 

 the lungs in performing their duty. 



PUPIL. I have read that, in the great race of five heats 

 of four miles each which was won by Black Maria the 

 grant aunt of the Falcon she lost a hundred and twenty- 

 five pounds in weight. I suppose it was as severe a race 

 as ever was run, the fifth heat being only forty-one seconds 

 slower than the first, and the black mare ran for every 

 heat, not having been laid up in any of them. 



PRECEPTOR. It appears almost incredible that a horse 

 could lose so much as that in so short a time, no matter 



