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manes combed, and their legs rubbed. They are to be 

 fed as in the morning, on mashes and a small portion 

 of hay, and then shut up. The groom, on coming 

 into the stables at four o'clock in the afternoon, is 

 again to make his observations how each horse may 

 have purged in the stables; and such of them as he 

 may observe to have purged briskly throughout the 

 whole of the day, he will order to be left in, and those 

 which have purged moderately, he will or(]er out to 

 exercise with those others which were out in the 

 middle of the day : and on their coming into the 

 stables, they will be treated in every respect as they 

 were at noon time. But the mashes and warm water 

 should be discontinued to those horses which I have 

 directed to be left in, in consequence of their physic 

 having purged very briskly, most likely from its 

 having been given too strong. Warm thick gruel, in 

 small quantities, should be given to them, instead of 

 their mashes ; they may also have a little dry bran and 

 oats, mixed in equal parts. Their beds being set fair, 

 their heads should be let down so as to reach the 

 manger, and those horses which may not have been so 

 much purged, should have their mashes given them. 

 The stables may then be shut up until eight o'clock, 

 at which stable hour, the horses that have been 

 purging briskly the whole of the day, may again 

 be tried with a little more thick gruel, and if the 

 groom thinks they will eat a little dry corn, he may 

 give them a dish-full. The beds being again set fair, 

 the whole of the horses' heads let down, their quarters 



