26o THROUGH STABLE AND SADDLE-ROOM. 



wish to bore the reader with a lonff-winded treatise 

 on the subject. I only counsel him to follow the 

 advice I had given to me, and to insist upon its 

 being carried out. If so, he, at all events, will not 

 be troubled with it in his stable. 



Cold and cough is another great trouble. When 

 it gets into a stable it is almost sure to run through 

 it, and the result is that all the horses are down at 

 once. They lose their condition, and the owner 

 loses his sport or the use of them. A cold with a 

 horse is by no means an ailment to be lightly 

 treated. It may be very serious. A horse suffers 

 infinitely more with a cold than we do, far more 

 than people are apt to suppose ; and it takes weeks, 

 and often months, for a horse to completely recover 

 from the effects of a cold which has been neglected 

 at first, and very often when he does recover, he is 

 unsound. 



Generally speaking, a horse does not catch cold 

 from exposure ; it is rather from want of fresh, pure 

 air, as I endeavoured to show at the commencement 

 of this book. True it is that it does not do to let 

 a horse which is clipped or sweating stand about in 

 cold weather. He will very probably get chilled, 

 and a cold be the result. With mankind a cold 

 generally (at all events very often) is followed by a 

 cough ; with a horse the cough generally precedes 



