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would be well — therefore at midnight, when poor ' Bones y 
had continued in pain for twelve hours and showed little 
sign of improvement, I felt my fleeting sense of security 
rudelv shattered. 
It was shortly after midnight when I was told that the 
animal seemed a little easier. At 2.30 I was again in the 
stable and found the improvement had been maintained; 
the horse still lay on its side with outstretched head, but 
the spasms had ceased, its eye looked less distressed, 
and its ears pricked to occasional noises. As I stood 
looking it suddenly raised its head and rose without effort 
to its legs; then in a moment, as though some bad dream 
had passed, it began to nose at some hay and at its 
neighbour. Within three minutes it had drunk a bucket 
of water and had started to feed. 
I went to bed at 3 with much relief. At noon to-day 
the immediate cause of the trouble and an indication 
that there is still risk were disclosed in a small ball of 
semi-fermented hay covered with mucus and containing 
tape worms; so far not very serious, but unfortunately 
attached to this mass was a strip of the lining of the 
intestine. 
Atkinson, from a humanly comparative point of view, 
docs not think this is serious if great care is taken with the 
food for a week or so, and so one can hope for the best. 
Meanwhile we have had much discussion as to the 
first cause of the difficulty. The circumstances possibly 
contributing arc as follows: fermentation of the hay, 
insufficiency of water, overheated stable, a chill from 
exercise after the gale— I think all these may have had a 
