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opportunity of going over one of the great training 

 stables ; so, with the dash of the sportsman inherent in 

 most Englishmen, they enter their chargers, hacks, or 

 polo ponies for some event, training them so fine that 

 when the race comes off the poor beasts have not a run 

 left in them. This is due to sheer ignorance of the fact 

 that countrybreds cannot stand the training given to 

 English thoroughbreds ; not altogether because they 

 are an entirely different class of animal, undersized and 

 underbred compared with the latter (although they 

 have more endurance and greater power of abstinence), 

 but because as foals they have not been so well 

 cared for and so well nourished, have less reserve to go 

 upon consequently it is a grave mistake to train this 

 reserve away before the race. In other words, they 

 are as a rule more or less in a state of training 

 when regularly worked, and an extra strain reduces 

 instead of improving them. 



The assumption, too, that the camel has an extra Evils of 

 stomach or stomachs, a natural provision for the 

 storage of water, is, as we have seen, a misapplication 

 of words ; but he has rows of cells attached to the first, 

 and also enclosed in the second compartment, which 

 are set apart exclusively for this purpose. We know 

 that he returns the partially masticated food from the 

 second compartment to the mouth, which he chews at 

 his own leisure, returning it to the fourth compartment, 

 there to be digested. We also know that he can retain 

 a certain quantity of water (about 1-J- gallon) in the 

 water cells, when full, by means of which he can on 

 an emergency abstain from water for several days. If 

 you keep him from water for a long time, and at the 



