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clothes except when hunting, was, on the contrary, 

 one that produced much suffering and danger to a 

 horse subject to different treatment and different em- 

 ploy. 



Clipping has now had its day, and singeing has 

 very properly taken its place. It is quite evident that 

 cutting of a hair that is a hollow tube must admit the 

 access of air. What, then, must be the effect pro- 

 duced by thus admitting cold air to the body by 

 millions of open orifices? Now, on the contrary, 

 singeing, as it were, hermetically seals up these orifices 

 as we go on ; all the effect the animal feels from it is 

 what a man experiences when taking off an upper 

 coat. But be it borne in mind that, with all the 

 advantage singeing has over the old practice of clip- 

 ping, a horse closely singed must no more be exposed 

 (when standing still) to draughts, wind, rain, or 

 extreme cold, than must the man without his addi- 

 tional coat. When clipping was in vogue it was often 

 pitiable to see horses standing shivering with cold in 

 medical men's carriages, and in many other cases 

 similarly exposed ; even horses waiting for their mas- 



