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PART III. 

 PUTTING INTO CONDITION. 



STABLING AND CLOTHING. 



HAVING made your purchase from the stables, 

 whether as a Racer, Charger, or Hunter, the same 

 system is to be pursued in order to put him into 

 strong healthy condition, externally and internally ; 

 and, from the day he comes out of the Bomb Proof, 

 never let him enter a shut-up stable, but picket him 

 in an open pendal, or under a tent. You are not in 

 England now, and you will reap the benefit of this 

 by-and-by. From about the 1st November to the 

 1st of March, one unlined cumly is necessary at night, 

 when picketed in either of the above ; but never more 

 than a dungaree one, if he is, where he has no 

 business to be, in a close shut-up stable. There is 

 no medium with some people ; they either advocate 

 shutting their horses up in a dark and hot stable, 

 thereby doing their best to introduce half a dozen 

 English diseases ; or else picket the poor brutes out 

 in the open mydan the whole year long, caring no- 

 thing about the thermometer for six months being at 

 130 degrees in the sun, whose rays penetrate their 

 very brains ; while, at other seasons, the rains pelt 

 down on their unlucky backs unceasingly for twelve 

 hours, and sometimes for twenty-four, without their 



