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o'clock, when he may not be lying down. Always 

 give the water four times a-day, allowing the small 

 dhool once full at each time, with another half-dhool, 

 if wished for, when he comes home in the evening, 

 as advised under PUTTING INTO CONDITION. He will 

 be inclined to drink less, on the whole, in this way, 

 and thrive the better. You cannot be too particular 

 with your leather dhool : gora-wallas are always put- 

 ting currycombs, brushes, and old shoes, in a wood- 

 en tub ; besides, a tub is not half so nice as an old 

 dhool, tinged with moss-like green from the continual 

 use of water. A new tub should have a few shav- 

 ings burnt in it before being used, and if once taken 

 to wash the feet, a delicate horse will smell it for a 

 week. 



CORDIAL BALLS, HORSE-BREAD, ETC. 



The belly is sometimes a trifle larger than is alto- 

 gether compatible with training ; the horse may not 

 be at all too fat, occasionally the contrary, but the 

 belly droops a little. Feed more liberally, both on 

 grain and grass, {/'the bowels will stand it, and give 

 a cordial every other morning ; but even if with this 

 rather drooping belly he should cariy too much flesh, 

 neither the grain, grass, nor water are to be stinted ; 

 (over-feeding, which is worse, you have been before 

 warned against) . Give, in this case, six of the alter- 

 ative balls, p. 74, one every other evening on return 

 from his walk, and sweat gently once a-week. The 

 belly will go up of itself, if you are not in a hurry. 



If the dung becomes too lax, or you find him get- 

 ting heavy and out of spirits, and neither caused by 

 over-feeding ; or if by accident he has been a little 



