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piece of sack will do, failing anything better), wrapped 

 round the leg above and below the fetlock joint, then 

 tied above the joint with a piece of string or tape, 

 and the part of it above the string turned down over 

 the part below. 



5. The horse may be jogging along " as sound as 

 a bell," and suddenly go "as lame as a tree." Get 

 down at once, for the odds are that he has either 

 picked up a stone, or a nail, in his foot, or stepped 

 on a stone. If either of the former, they must be 

 got out, if the latter, we shall probably see a whitish 

 mark somewhere on the foot, and the horse will 

 usually go sound again in a few minutes, and con- 

 tinue so for the rest of the day, though he may 

 subsequently be lame from the bruise. 



6. " Was silly fresh, shied at a piece of paper, and 

 got caught in the step of a cart, which cut an artery." 

 This would be an unlucky accident, especially as 

 most of the arteries run in the inside of the limbs, 

 still it might happen, either in this way or from a 

 kick, and it is important to know how to stop arterial 

 bleeding, both in man and horse. We may do so 

 by improvising a tourniquet; a round, smooth stone, 

 a handkerchief, and our hunting crop, are all we 

 v/ant. In the Real a cleaning rod, a sword, or a 

 bayonet, may be substituted for the crop.^ 



7. A kick. — This mostly happens when horses are 



^ Since writing the above, personal experience has provided 

 an instance of a carriage-horse shying into another vehicle, cutting 

 an artery, and being just saved from bleeding to death by an 

 improvised tourniquet (Oct. 1899). 



