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ticularly so utter sweating, should have four 

 bowls full of mash. As soon as these horses have 

 eaten their mashes, and the others their corn, 

 their hay is to be given them; and their heads 

 being unchained, their quarters are stripped. 

 The boys having had their suppers in the early 

 part of the evening, now let down the bed set- 

 tles, make their beds, undress themselves, and 

 go to bed. The lights are to be put out by 

 the groom or head lad; and the stables at 

 about nine o'clock are locked up until the next 

 morning. 



I wish, previous to my concluding this chapter, 

 to make some few remarks on the advantages and 

 disadvantages of applying bandages to the legs of 

 horses in training. It was not the custom at the 

 time of my juvenile days, in the stables, to make 

 use of bandages about the legs of race horses, 

 unless in case of their being amiss on their legs; 

 woollen bandages are, under those circumstances, 

 if immersed in proper fluids, of the greatest 

 utility. Why I have recommended them to be 

 applied to the legs of horses, after they have 

 been sweated, is merely for the purpose of drying 

 their legs quickly; they should be put on in the 

 way I liave already directed ; but they are not to 



