1 14 TREATMENT OF HORSES 



them to drink. I confess it is difficult to get 

 them to do either the one or the other ; yet it 

 is the only method likely to answer, at least the 

 only one I am acquainted with. 



Supposing the horses to have done their 

 exercise, the whole of them are of course to 

 return to the stables, where the business of 

 the day is to go on, as has been already suf- 

 ficiently described. One other little circum- 

 stance must be mentioned : the mornings at 

 the season of the year we have been alluding 

 to, will, of course, occasionally be wet, which 

 will prevent the horses from being taken out 

 to exercise at their accustomed hour. But, 

 that no opportunity may be lost, should the day 

 be likely to clear up by twelve o'clock, the boys 

 ought to dine half an hour earlier than usual, 

 so that the groom may, if the weather per- 

 mit, be out with his horses at two or about 

 three o'clock in the day, and give them the exer- 

 cise now they should have had in the morning ; 

 and regulate the stables in the evening and at 

 night accordingly. I have repeatedly spoken of 

 the taking down and putting up of the bales, as 

 also the setting fair^of the stables, which is to be 

 understood by the reader as invariably to take 



