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CHAPTER XVIII. 



Personal supervision by master. — Such personal supervision 

 not lowering. — Evidences of a good groom. — Amount of 

 work for one servant. — Overworked grooms. — Good ser- 

 vants procurable. — A fair day's work and a fair day's 

 wage. — Hours for grooming. — Time required to clean a 

 horse.- — Blind horses, and summer coats. — ' Wolf-teeth ' 

 and shying. — Hour for 'morning' stables. — Hours for, and 

 routine of, grooming. — Morning. — Mid-day.- — Evening. — 

 Grooming a tired hunter. — Extra rules for grooming 

 hunters. — Eefusing corn. — Points to be specially attended 

 to in grooming. — How to test good grooming. — How to 

 groom. — The use of the curry-comb. — Clipping. — Time for 

 clippiug. — Singeing.- — Naphtha and gas singeing-lamps. — 

 Undipped legs. — Treatment after singeing. — Mane-pulling. 

 — How to pull a mane. — Hogging manes. — Tail-cutting.— 

 Docking. 



If the eye of the master is to be over the servant, 

 it is certainly essential that he should not only 

 know what the work of that servant consists of, 

 but also how it should be performed. Neither will 

 it in any way detract from the master's dignity, or 

 lessen his servant's respect for him, if the latter is 

 aware that his master can himself show him with 

 his own hands how his work should bv done. 



