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ber that this alarming disorder reappeared. 



I went to meet the Hambledon hounds 

 upon as good a hunter as ever went into 

 a field ; but on its coming on wet, I 

 altered my mind, and rode to the village 

 of Hambledon. On meeting with a farmer 

 I knew, he asked me how it was that 

 I was not with the hounds. 



I told him I was too late; for they 

 had found a fox and gone away. 



After looking at my horse some little 

 time, he said, "It is a good job you were 

 too late, for your nag has a severe 

 cold ; see how he discharges at the 

 nostrils/' 



I thought the animal had not shown his 

 usual spirit, and, after stopping half an 

 hour, I rode him gently home, and treated 

 him according to the directions of the ex- 

 perienced hand I had met in the morning. 

 He got no better, and in a few days 

 alarming symptoms began to show them- 



