THE HORSE 



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'Dkrby Day" ix othkk Days 



Every day on the plain around Newmarket 

 over one hundred of the most celebrated horses 

 in England can be seen. 



Training, professionally so called, has for its 

 object to develop and strengthen by exercise, 

 and to bring a variety of humors out of the 



body by sweating and laxative dosing. Sweat- 

 ing is induced by galloping the animal under 

 woolen blankets ; he is physicked by pills com- 

 posed chiefly of aloes. Thus the body is kept 

 sUm, especially the stomach, which sometimes 

 appears drawn in like that of a greyhound, 



'Derby Day" in our Day 



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