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huur's work into half-;in-luHir — is often thu fatal fault. Wu all 

 know that we can sweat a horse by common road riding' ; 

 what then is to prevent the necessary reduction of flesh beinjj; 

 made quietly under clothing ? Nothing, but that it requires 

 more time. Galloping does it quicker, and lads like galloping 

 best. Then the way they saw and haul, and hang on by the 

 mouth is truly awful. 



We remember in the days of our adolescence, folding a 

 shilling in a nice clean crisp " Henry Hase," with the £i 

 mark figuring like a raspberry tart at the corner, for the 

 purpose of giving it to the first Groom we met riding on the 

 snaffle, and feeling his horse's mouth as he went. Well, we 

 carried that " Henry Hase " for weeks and months until the 

 shilling wore itself through, and we dare say we might have 

 carried it till now, without meeting with such a rarity in 

 London, as a Groom riding on the snaffle. They all hang on 

 by the curb. 



If a Groom can give a ball and bleed a horse, we would 

 compound for all the other knowledge in favour of that first 

 of all essentials, good " elbow grease " and exercise. " Giving 

 a ball," indeed, is about the extent of some of their ability in 

 the physicing line, the pr(jper preparation of a horse for it 

 being much beyond the march of their intellect. If a horse 

 is difficult to move, instead of lengthening the period of his 

 preparation, they increase the quantity of aloes, until we have 

 seen a poor beggar with near a dozen drachms in his guts. In 

 these cases Grooms ahvays swear the aloes are bad, or» the 

 bran is bad, or the water is bad, or something is bad — anj-- 

 thing but that their management is bad. Some fellows are fit 

 for nothing but inventing excuses, and uncommonly quick and 

 clever they are. 



Veterinary surgeons are now so distributed about the 

 country that in anything out of the ordinary way it is best to 

 send for one of them. With horses, as with men, cold and 



