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was found that some thorough-bred horses, when 

 lying by in winter short of work, will, by way 

 of amusing themselves, get into as bad habits 

 or tricks in the stables as some others of them 

 will, from bad management, occasionally get 

 tricky out of the stables. The tricks that they 

 will at times get at in the night, in their loose 

 boxes and stalls, are various: some horses get 

 a habit of rolling, until they cast themselves; 

 others are inclined to kick with violence the sides 

 of the stalls ; others lick the sides of the stalls 

 or boxes; from this they go on to lick their 

 manger rails, some lay hold of them, and thus 

 take to crib-biting and sucking their wind ; 

 others of them will take to weaving, that is, 

 moving their heads and fore-quarters from one 

 side of the stall to the other; some take to 

 pawing up their litter, but this is easily pre- 

 vented by putting fetters on them. Now, that 

 those habits and tricks are very bad we must al- 

 low ; but I scarcely ever remember a horse, who 

 had been addicted to any one of those or other 

 tricks not here mentioned, to have been perma- 

 nently cured. When they are in strong work, as 

 in training, they do not appear to have so great a 

 propensity to practise them as in winter, when 



