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their saddles and body sweaters are taken off. 

 Tlieir bodies are then to be scraped and wisped 

 as their quarters were. 



It will now be advisable, (if there is ready in 

 the stable a bucket of luke-warm water), just 

 previously to the whole surface of their bodies 

 being well wiped over with rubbers, to give each 

 horse, out of a wooden bowl, two or three go- 

 downs of water; this small portion of fluid is 

 not only pleasingly grateful to their tastes, but 

 moistens, lubricates, and cleanses their mouths 

 and throats, and thereby relieves those parts 

 from that parched unpleasant feeling which has 

 been occasioned by the great exertions they 

 have undergone; and if their lips and nos- 

 trils are sponged and wiped dry with a linen 

 rubber, they will afterwards feel much refreshed. 

 Their bodies being now done, they are, to pre- 

 vent them from becoming chilly or taking cold, 

 to be clothed up in warm, dry, comfortable cloth- 

 ing, as soft blanket-like sort of rugs, next to their 

 skins, with as much more of their other body 

 clothes as may be necessary, according to the 

 state of the weather and the delicacy of their 

 constitutions. Their saddles and boots being 

 again put on, and their manes and tails combed 



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