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any appearance of having taken cold — he loses 

 flesh, and looks dry in his skin — his legs and ears 

 are often cold, the latter frequently wet after exer- 

 cise, and sometimes deprived of part of their natural 

 covering — his crest falls — the whole tone of his 

 system appears relaxed ; and, without his groom 

 exactly knowing why, he is not the horse he was a 

 week ago." To this we have nothing to add, un- 

 less it be to congratulate owners of horses on the 

 terrors of physicking them having vanished with 

 the present improved method of administering the 

 doses ; and on the fact, that only a few days' ces- 

 sation from labour is now required to afford them 

 this relief. We should say, that a hunter is never 

 more fit to go through a sharp run, than on the 

 tenth day after his physic has " set." 



But we do nol> consider that we can close this 

 part of our subject, without a few words on the 

 treatment of the grass-fed hunter, as there are still 

 some who yet abandon him to shift for himself in 

 the summer, and are content to see him return to 

 his stall in August, the very reverse of what he 

 was when he left it in May. Nor is this the worst 

 of it. He cannot be reinstated in the condition in 

 which he was when he went out in May, until 

 hunting is three parts over the following season. 

 However, we will lay down what we consider the 

 most likely plan to pursue, to fit him for the work 

 he is intended for : — 



From the redundancy of blood and humours, and 

 distension of bowels beyond their proper size, which 

 the grass-fed hunter acquires, all violent exertion 



