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to be blind, or lame, or vicious, without lessen- 
ing the degree of diligence. 
225, Ordinary Care. Ordinary care means that 
amount of diligence which one would exercise 
with regard to his own like property. There can 
be no hard and fast rule in this regard. For ex- 
ample, horses accustomed to be kept in barns, if 
they chanced to be in a pasture when a storm 
came up, with sleet and snow, would suffer if left 
exposed. Ordinary care would mean the bringing 
of the horses to shelter; but ordinary care for a 
lot of wild horses, accustomed to exposure during 
winter, in the same storm would mean letting them 
alone. 
A mileh cow would be injured were she not 
milked at the usual time, and ordinary care re- 
quires that she be milked for her own safety. 
Sheep permitted to wear their winter coat of wool 
through the summer months would suffer, and 
ordinary care demands that such sheep be 
sheared; but if the sheep are being boarded, or 
agisted, in the absence of special agreement the 
wool would be the property of the owner of the 
sheep. The care of the sheep includes also the care 
of the wool, and if it cannot be preserved without 
loss to the owner, ordinary care would mean that 
the wool must be sold, and in the place of handing 
over the wool itself the agister would pass over 
the money received. 
226. Duty of Bailor. ‘‘It is the duty of the 
bailor to exercise good faith toward the bailee by 
giving him notice of all the faults of the thing 
bailed, within his knowledge, that might result in 
exposing the bailee to danger, and if he fails to do 
