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with the neck-strap : see that it is well and fast buckled, 

 but not drawn tight round the throat. The neck-strap 

 of the head-stall is also often tied or buckled so tight, 

 that the poor animal is half throttled, and, not being 

 able to speak, loses his whole night's rest in conse- 

 quence. 



DRENCHING. 



In drenching a horse either with gruel or physic, a 

 common soda-water bottle, or a thick English wine- 

 bottle, with a piece of leather sewed tight round the 

 neck, to prevent accident from the glass breaking, is 

 cleaner than any thing else. Put the neck gently into 

 the mouth just above the tush : if he is a quiet horse, 

 and it is properly given, he will swallow down the 

 most nauseous dose with as little trouble as a child 

 takes its pap. If very restive, you can have it put 

 into a thick leather bottle, which a Moochee in any 

 bazaar will knock up for you in a few hours. 



PHYSIC BALL, AND DRENCH. 



Sail. Finely powdered aloes, and a quarter the 

 quantity of kidney mutton fat, that has been well boil- 

 ed down."* Make into a long ball, or two, if it should 

 be large, adding a dozen drops of oil of anise-seed, and 

 some calomel, if required. Wrap it up in tissue-paper, 

 oiling the same with linseed-oil at the time of giving, 

 for a ball cannot be too soft. A hard ball takes 

 double the time to dissolve, besides the danger of its 

 sticking in the gullet, and choking the animal. If 



I prefer honey or treacle to any him' \ fat. ED. 



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