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work much quicker than if they had been 

 kept all the time standing still. 



As horses, when, under natural conditions, 

 spend a very large portion of their time 

 moving about in search of food ; their limbs 

 are ill adapted to bear the bad effects of 

 inaction, particularly when the animals cannot 

 relieve the consequent congestion by lying 

 down. The immediate ill consequences of 

 long standing, on the feet of horses, is far 

 less injurious to them than the inability to 

 bear even moderate exercise which it induces, 

 supposing that the animals are put to work 

 soon after the completion of the voyage. The 

 danger to be specially feared in these cases 

 is the occurrence of laminitis (fever in the 

 feet), to which disease horses are specially 



liable, owing to the fact that their feet are 



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