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a carriage-horse, for his duty, might not in the least impair the 
utility of a farm-horse, a cart-horse, or a dray-horse.” P. 157. 
“ When may a horse be called sound, 
When no disease upon’t be found ; 
When neither blind, nor broken-winded, 
Nor lameness, has just begun or mended; 
Nor any cause at time of sale 
That ’gainst his duties may prevail ?” 
Chap. VII, “ Stable Economy .” 
“ In the majority of stables hygeinic measures are nearly disre- 
garded, and the directing principles which should regulate their 
construction are too generally misunderstood or sadly neglected.” 
P. 172. 
“ The Arab litters his khayle with a shallow bed of dried horse- 
dung, which is daily removed and exposed to the sun : a similar 
practice obtains throughout Persia. In Egypt the floor of the 
stable is covered with fine desert sand, which is repeatedly changed, 
and never allowed to be saturated with moisture; and in no 
country in the world are the feet and legs of horses more free from 
disease.” P. 177. 
“ In Egypt, the machine which thrashes the barley at the same 
time cuts the straw into short pieces (tibbin). This is packed in 
large coarse nets, and employed very extensively as food for 
horses and camels.” P. 184. 
“ In Arabia and Egypt, horses are commonly watered but once 
a-day. In Persia, the custom is to give them water at sunrise and 
sunset. In England, they are usually suffered to drink thrice 
during the day.” P. 191. 
“In this country horses are seldom bathed; but it is the custom 
in Prussia to attach to the cavalry barracks a capacious basin for 
swimming the horses in. In summer time this is used nearly every 
day. During the hot weather it cools and cleanses the skin, and 
contributes to maintain the horse in a healthy state. When in 
Egypt, I frequently ordered large numbers of sick and healthy 
horses to be bathed in the Red Sea or the Nile, which practice was 
constantly attended with the most salutary results.” P. 200. 
“ The peculiar manner in which an Arab horse carries his tail 
has for a long time excited admiration. It results from the form of 
the croup, which may itself be an effect of art continued for a long 
series of ages. It is possible that this deviation in the position 
and carriage of the tail may have been first induced by the inva- 
riable Eastern custom of keeping the tail shorn of its hair during 
the period of growth. The colt is docked early in life, and from 
that time the dock is kept constantly trimmed until the fourth or 
