CHAPTEE XXYI. 



CUTTING THE QUARTERS APPEARANCE OP HORSES WHEN EN 



CONDITION THE MODEL FORM FOR A HORSE THE BRAIN 



THE GREAT RESERVOIR OF POWER. 



PRECEPTOR. Why ! what is the matter ? You have as 

 rueful a look as the Knight of the Sorrowful Coun 

 tenance. 



PUPIL. I have met with the first bad luck I have had 

 this season. Never Mind has cut his quarter badly. 



PRECEPTOR. It would have been a great deal worse it 

 he had struck his knee. It is rather a bad wound, and I 

 am surprised he could do it with the shoes he is wearing. 

 Get some strong linen or cotton cloth, and tear it into 

 strips, a couple of inches wide. Hand me that bottle of 

 fir-balsam, and we will see if we cannot repair the dam- 

 age. Wash the wound out clean with tepid water. Now 

 we will draw it close together, and, after applying the 

 bandages for two or three thicknesses, cover them with the 

 balsam, again wrapping them over the coronet until we get 

 several folds, which will completely exclude the air and 

 moisture. The flesh of a horse, in the condition that 

 Never Mind now is, will heal very readily, and I should 

 not be surprised if this heals by the first intention, as the 

 doctors term it. I have had worse cuts than this get well 

 more rapidly than I would have thought possible, by treat- 

 ing them after this simple method. An impervious coating 

 is fornled that protects the cut from dust and dirt; and nine 

 times in ten, if applied as soon as the injury is done, it 



