CLIPPIKa HORSES. 255 



singeing, if desired, will reduce tlie coat to as short a 

 length as clipping, yet no such direct change of 

 colour is effected by it ; we must therefore infer that 

 we, in fact, char the hair as we go on, which accounts 

 for it not showing the same hue as a chpped coat. 

 Grey, dun, or roan horses, in point of appearance, 

 look to the full as well after being clipped as singed. 

 We have only the objection to their being, without 

 great care, very liable to take cold after the opera- 

 tion ; if, however, we have patience to wait until 

 nature again closes the ends of the coat, which it will 

 very soon do by its growth, no danger need be feared, 

 unless the horse is exposed to such cold as no animal 

 can be expected to endure with impunity having but 

 a shght covering of hair on his body. 



It will be found that, so soon as the horse's coat 

 begins to shoot in the autumn, the groom will inter- 

 cede with his master to have his horses cHpped or 

 singed, and will, moreover, give his directions to the 

 man employed to get as much of the coat off as pos- 

 sible, forgetting, or probably not caring (provided he 

 is saved trouble) that a coat that may be very proper 



