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long time before you can give him any Drink, with- 

 out endangering his Life - ? and when you take offthe 

 Bridle, his exceflive Third will hinder him from 

 eating, fo that an hour or two will be elapfed before 

 he offer to touch his Meat, which is almofl all the 

 time a Man can well allow for a Bait at Noon, and 

 to depart again with the Horfe in this condition 

 before he hath either eat or drank, will make him 

 but very unfit to travel. 



It is alfo good to ride very foftly for a quarter or 

 half an Hour before you arrive at your Inn, that 

 your Horfe not being too warm, nor out of breath 

 when you put him into the Stable, you may immedi- 

 ately unbridle him. But if your Bufinefs requires 

 you to put on fharply, you mull then, if the Wea- 

 ther be warm, let him be walked in a Man's Hand, 

 that he may cool by degrees : And if it be very cold, 

 then let him be covered with fome Cloaths, and 

 walked up and down in fome place free from the 

 Wind. But if you have not the conveniency of a 

 fheltered Walk, liable him immediately, and let his 

 whole Body be well rubb'd and dried with Straw. 

 And do not unbridle him until he be pretty dry, 

 and have recovered his Wind ; and during that time 

 you lhall ungirt him, take off his Crupper, flack the 

 Breaft-plate, and put fome frefh Straw betwixt the 

 Saddle and his Back to refrefh and eafe him. Then 

 fhakedown frefh Litter beneath him to oblige him 

 to flale or pifs ^ for moll good Horfes do always 

 pifs when they are firft put in the Stable, and find 

 the Litter beneath them? 



Altho' mod People will have their Horfe's Legs 

 rubb'd down with Straw as foon as they are put in 

 the Stable, thinking thereby to fupple their Legs, 

 yet it is one of the greateft Abufes can be commit- 

 ted, and produces no other Effeft but to draw down 

 upon the Legs thofe Humours which are already 

 ftirr'd up by the Fatigue of the Journey. But where* 



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