72 PHYSICKING. 



fire for eight or ten minutes, stirring it about. If 

 merely mixed with water, it is liable to clot in the 

 stomach and do harm, especially when given in over- 

 durging ; for this last case it must therefore always be 

 made with the hot water, and properly boiled ; or 

 keep at hand some previously made thus : boil two or 

 three pounds of dry wheat bajree, or gram flour, tied 

 up in a cloth like a pudding, for four hours : it will keep 

 for months, and a piece being broken off, and mixed 

 with boiling water, it is ready at once. No animal, 

 and no man either, has so nice and delicate a taste for 

 drink as a healthy horse ; and if the water is the least 

 smoked, or the gruel should get the least smoked when 

 on the fire, or the koondee it is put into the least 

 greasy or dirty, or even, perhaps, if the koondee is 

 quite new, he will be sure to smell it, and most proba- 

 bly refuse to drink ; and, if he has not occasionally had 

 gruel before, will very likely never afterwards volun- 

 tarily swallow it : now, as this is of consequence, in- 

 asmuch as gruel is very necessary at times for a horse 

 recovering from sickness, it behoves you to take care 

 and offer it him clean. Many horses will turn their 

 heads away even from clean gruel, when under physic, 

 that at other times would drink a dhool full. 



MUZZLE. 



Let your muzzle be at least eight inches deep, with 

 two large holes, both full two inches in diameter at the 

 sides close to the bottom, for each nogtril ; and the top 

 of it large enough to put your hand in on each side. 

 It is barbarous to see the way in which some horses 

 are half suffocated with a little hard muzzle tightly 

 drawn over their mouths. Do not choke him either 



