THEIR FEED AND THEIR FEET. 



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best-known sale stables in this city. Fat as butter, he 

 was taken to his new home, one of the largest and 

 best stables in New York City. There they were 

 afraid to put him directly at steady work, but they were 

 not afraid to feed him ! Although designing to feed 

 rather light as compared with their old, hard-working 

 horses, they still managed to founder him with food. 

 The veterinary was called in (from the sale stable), 

 and I witnessed the treatment. With every feeling 

 of respect for the gentleman's good intentions and 

 his more than average natural ability, combined with. 

 a -pleasing manner, yet had the law and the customs 

 of the country permitted, I would have arrested him 

 for cruelty to animals. Aye, I would have fought 

 then and there to prevent the abuse I witnessed. 

 First, he lanced both arms, from which a smart fount- 

 ain of the best blood the poor fellow had poured 

 out in rapid streams for a sufficient time to fill, ac- 

 cording to my best judgment, a three-quart pail from 

 each wound. The professor next made an incision 

 in the skin near the top of the shoulder-blade, and 

 then proceeded to raise the skin by pinching each 

 side of the slit, and lifting the skin so as to cause the 

 space to fill with air, which mechanically-raised blister 

 he pressed along downward and forward, following 

 with another and another, until some scores of such 

 had inflated the whole left breast, and up the shoulder 

 toward the slit. Then he treated, the other side in 

 the same manner. There was then a complete blister 

 over the entire chest and far up the shoulders ; and 

 all this as a " counter-irritant ! " Soon, from the 



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