190 THE BROOD MARE. 



put the mare into work. My groom, how- 

 ever, made the mistake of milking her too 

 long. He used to draw off the milk and 

 give it to the foal in a pail — treated her, 

 in fact, like a milch cow. In consequence, 

 getting one day overheated, for she was a 

 very free and fiery goer, she developed 

 mammalitis, by Avhich the mammary glands 

 became hard and callous, and the ducts 

 being probably obstructed, it was deemed 

 inadvisable to breed from her again, the 

 vet. considering she would be unable to 

 svickle her foal. I had cause to resfret mv 

 inexperience when, some few years later, 

 this good mare met with an accident which 

 incapacitated her from further work, at a 

 time when her first foal was the most success- 

 ful steeple-chaser in the West of England, 

 and her second about the most useful all- 

 round animal I ever possessed. However, 

 no one has more surely to buy his exjDerience 

 than the student of the horse. 



