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to travel a sufficient distance to pay horse, driver, conveyance, and pro- 
prietor. In the possibility of such a contrast is, perhaps, best exemplified 
the cruelty of the bearing-rein. 
When the fine structure of the horse’s body is regarded, and we reflect 
that a creature of so beautiful a frame is by man’s will taken from the 
fields, where every bite of grass is of a different flavor—now hot and 
pungent by an admixture of the buttercup, then cool and bland by the 
marsh-mallow mingling with the morsel—where, unknown as yet to toil, 
such sustenance is sufficient for growth and idleness; when we consider 
that an animal is suddenly snatched from such a diet, every mouthful of 
which was endowed not only with a varied taste, but with a change of 
perfume; when we feebly conjecture how grateful this ever-varying savor 
must have rendered herbage to any being possessed of the admirable 
sense of smell with which the equine species are gifted, it can create but 
small surprise that, when taken into stables, put to exhaustiug labor, 
and day after day made to eat a stinted allowance of dry food, the same- 
ness of the diet and the change in habit should occasionally derange the 
digestion. Sore throat is, however, frequently a sign of some graver 
disorder; the affection should, therefore, be cautiously treated as a local 
malady. 
When it is present, the symptoms are a constant deglutition of saliva, 
a want of appetite, accompanied by an inability to swallow liquids. The 
pail being presented, the act of drinking is accomplished with evident 
effort; the drops are forced down by a series of jerks, which are often 
made more emphatic by an aud- 
ible accompaniment. Notwith- 
standing this labor, only a por- 
tion of the fluid enters the 
gullet, the greater part return- 
ing by the nostrils. 
So soon as this is observed, 
throw the horse up, for sore 
throat is always attended with 
weakness. Clothe fully, band- 
age the legs, place in a well- 
ventilated and amply littered 
loose box; feed upon green 
meat for a couple of days, at 
the same time always having A HORSE WITH SORE THROAT ENDEAVORING TO DRINK. 
present a pail of thick, well- 
made gruel, which should be regularly changed, thrice daily. Morning, 
noon, and night, a pottle of bruised oats, with a handful of old beans 
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