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be able to deal with correspondingly simple cases 

 which may happen to his men when he is away from 

 professional advice. 



It is outside the scope of these pages, and very 

 much beyond the capacity of the writer of them, to 

 treat of the injuries or ailments of the horse except 

 in an extremely amateurish and elementary manner. 

 So much is this the case, that we would begin by 

 declarinor that we have no technical knowledgfe what- 

 ever — are extremely ignorant, in fact — therefore we 

 only propose to try and think, with what little com- 

 mon sense we possess, about some of the common 

 accidents that may happen in the Image of War 

 campaign, and of a few of the ordinary ailments that 

 its work may cause. 



It will be best to try and take them as they might 

 happen in the course of a few days' hunting. If we 

 do this, we may get them somewhat as follows : — 



1. Our mount is a whistler or roarer, what can 

 we do to ease him ? 



Try a Harvey's aconite powder the night before 

 he goes out ; or give him a little linseed oil in the 

 morning". 



Damping all his food, and putting his water in an 

 old tar-barrel, has already been mentioned on p. 43. 



Permanent relief may be afforded by having a 

 tube put in his throat. 



2. He is scouring, as some horses will, from excite- 

 ment on his way to the meet. Put him up for a few 

 minutes at a wayside inn, and give him a little flour 

 and water or a double-handful of dry bran. Even if 



