. The Arabian horse, his country and people : with portraits of typical or famous Arabians and other illustrations. Also a map of the country of the Arabian horse, and a descriptive glossary of Arabic words and proper names. oken down that no one would ever think of galloping them,there is many a fresh-looking colt which may seem to ordinary people uninjured,but in reality has been well started on the road to unsoundness by his Bedouinrider. If such a one be hurriedly put in training, he may astonish his owner bybreaking down badly, as it is called, after very moderate work. If, as a pre-limin
. The Arabian horse, his country and people : with portraits of typical or famous Arabians and other illustrations. Also a map of the country of the Arabian horse, and a descriptive glossary of Arabic words and proper names. oken down that no one would ever think of galloping them,there is many a fresh-looking colt which may seem to ordinary people uninjured,but in reality has been well started on the road to unsoundness by his Bedouinrider. If such a one be hurriedly put in training, he may astonish his owner bybreaking down badly, as it is called, after very moderate work. If, as a pre-liminary step, he had been submitted to an able veterinarian, perhaps it wouldhave been pointed out that one of his suspensory ligaments was thicker than theother, or that there was a thickening of its lower and sheath-like portion on oneside of the fetlock joint, or on both, and that an interval of at least a year wasessential to recovery. A hasty preparation may ruin the soundest horse; and,even apart from the dictates of humanity, it is a sad thing when a noble colt, whichmight have proved a treasure to his owner for half a lifetime, is permanentlyinjured through incautious treatment in his first year in a new The Bedouin* Hau-daj. 2 S INDEXES NOTE. ON several grounds this Index requires to be introduced with something not unlil-;e anapology. First, the fact is evident that it contains a good deal of material of a kind•which is not usually committed to a table of reference. What opened the way for thisirregularity, if such it should be considered, was the adoption of the method of relegatingall foreign terms to a separate Index, instead of intermixing them with our own Englishwords in the columns of a general catalogue. From this it formed but a small step to pro-ceed to the task which has been undertaken, of adding under the more important headingsa little special information. In how far that information will be appreciated is a differentquestion. According to our ex
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