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neath, and came out in the coronet. We found it 

 hard to withdraw, so Pitman told his syce to clean 

 the foot well while he was busy elsewhere. We 

 then got the pincers to withdraw the stub, but the 

 syce had cut it off level with the coronet. There 

 was nothing sticking out ; the foot looked admir- 

 able. 



Horses in Northern India are liable to unsightly 

 spots all over them after a few days' hunting. 

 " Kadir spots " they are called. They are due to 

 nothing but bad grooming. If you examine a spot 

 carefully, you will find a tiny tick in it. 



Fever and colic are always anxieties ; the latter 

 may generally be ascribed to bad horsemastership. 

 Fever is, in my experience, usually due to chill, or 

 overwork in the sun with probably unfit animals. 



Mr. Kiddle, Australian Field Artillery, brought 

 over last season two very nice horses which he had 

 bred himself in New South Wales. But he did not 

 realize the power of the Indian sun. He hunted 

 them hard within a couple of months of landing, 

 and they both nearly died of biliary fever. 



An accursed thing this biliary fever is ; I have 

 lost one brilliant and one very good horse by it. 

 However, its treatment hardly comes within the 

 scope of jungle remedies. 



Captain Macdonald is so clear as to sprains that 

 in this subject, as in all else, he has left me little 

 to say. 



I am a great advocate for never despairing as 

 to fetlocks. No matter how bad they look, work 

 and massage generally bring them right. I had a 

 horse, At Last, that I bought as a youngster in 

 Bombay on dear old Charlie Cough's recommenda- 

 tion. I have seen few better. He was at first 



