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when the system is shaken and every nerve unstrung, do that harm which 
no medicine can repair. 
Having given the drink, look at the animal and take the pulse. Should 
the appearance denote inward comfort, should the pulse be natural, give 
no more drinks; but if the eye is in constant motion, if the horse breathe 
hard and start at sounds, if the head is held high and the ears are active, 
repeat the ethereal draught, and continue repeating it every hour until 
the foregoing symptoms abate. 
The object of the medicine being gained, have the horse quietly led 
into a stall; the stall it has been used to is the best, and the favorite 
neighbor need not be removed. But all other quadrupeds which might. 
disturb the sick animal should be taken out of the building. A good, 
clean bed should be shaken down, and the diet must be suited to the 
symptoms. If the pulse is at all low, no hay should be allowed till it 
amends; should the arterial beat denote oppression, a rather large pro- 
portion of beans may be blended with the oats. If the breathing is 
short, the countenance unhappy, and the eye sleepy, while a very quick 
and feeble pulse only is to be detected, give four of the ethereal drinks 
in the twenty-four hours. Also allow two quarts of stout daily. 
All horses should be accustomed to drink beer; with very little teach- 
ing they abandon their teetotal habits, and will by very expressive action 
signify delight at the sight of a pewter pot. The best means of intro- 
ducing the beverage to their notice is, in the first instance, to break a 
penny loaf into pieces, to soak the pieces in the beverage, and then to 
offer them, one by one, from the hand of the master or the favorite at- 
tendant. Animals quickly learn to recognize their owners. The dog 
will bestow such a welcome upon its proprietor as is never lavished 
upon any stranger. The horse also learns to recognize the individual 
whose property it has become. See the animal which has carried the 
groom without excitement to the door, and which has walked before the 
house with pendant head and listless ears: the moment the door opens 
and the master appears, all dejection is cast off; the creature cannot 
stand still when the foot is in the stirrup; and, immediately the weight 
is felt upon the back, the happy quadruped prances gayly off, often at 
the risk of unseating him who has provoked this demonstration of ex- 
cessive pleasure. 
The master who is unknown has earned his fate by his neglect, and 
probably may live to repent his inattention to the duties which Provi- 
dence has intrusted to his charge. The affections of the meanest 
creature that breathes are blessings which the highest and the proudest 
may well stoop to gain. The love of a horse is not to be despised; 
the noble quadruped is easier controlled by its uncultivated impulses 
