The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . re a habit of kicking at the stall orthe bail, and particularly at night, from mere irritabilityand fidgettiness. The neighbouring Horses are disturb-ed, and the kicker gets swelled hocks, or some moreserious injury. This is also a habit very difficult to cor-rect if suffered to become established. Mares are far moresubject to it than Horses. Before the habit is inveterately established, a thorn bushor a piece of furze fastened against the partitition or postwill sometimes effect a cure. When the Horse finds thathe is pretty severely p
The Cabinet of natural history and American rural sports . re a habit of kicking at the stall orthe bail, and particularly at night, from mere irritabilityand fidgettiness. The neighbouring Horses are disturb-ed, and the kicker gets swelled hocks, or some moreserious injury. This is also a habit very difficult to cor-rect if suffered to become established. Mares are far moresubject to it than Horses. Before the habit is inveterately established, a thorn bushor a piece of furze fastened against the partitition or postwill sometimes effect a cure. When the Horse finds thathe is pretty severely pricked he will not long continue topunish himself. In confirmed cases it may be necessaryto have recourse to the log, but the legs are often not alittle bruised by it. A rather long and heavy piece ofwood attached to a chain is buckled above the hock, so as toreachabouthalfwaydownthe leg. When the Horse attemptsto kick violently, his leg will receive a severe blow fromthis, and the repetition of the blow will soon teach him tobe quiet. (To be continued.). AND AMERICAN RURAL SPORTS. 217 POLAR BEAR. USSUS MARITIMUS. [Plate XIX.] Ursus Maritimiis, Linn. Ursus Mbus. Briss. EegneAnim. p. 260. sp. 2. Ours Blanc; Buff. Supp. jo/.34. Ours Blanc: Desm. Mam. p. 10. sp. Polar Bear: Penn. Syn. quad. p. 192. tab. 1. Pallas, spicil. Zool. xiv. tab. 1.—MenagerieLiving Animals, exhibited in Philadelphia, winter of1S32—3. In the desolate regions of the north, where unrelent-ing winter reigns in full appanage of horrors during thegreater part of the year, and even the stormy ocean itselfis long imprisoned by thick ribbed ice, the PolarBear finds his most congenial abode. There, prowlingover the frozen wastes, he satiates his hunger on the car-casses of whales deserted by the adventurous fishermen,or seizes on such marine animals as come up to bask inopen air; and when occasion calls, he fearlessly plungesinto the sea in pursuit of his prey, as if the deep were hisnati
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