Helps and Hints How to Protect Life and Property. Particulars and Recommendations of the Stadium, or British National Arena for Manly and Defensive Exercises

Berenger, De

ISBN 10: 1231837314 / ISBN 13: 9781231837313

Editore: Rarebooksclub.com, 2012

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Gut/Very good: Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit wenigen Gebrauchsspuren an Einband, Schutzumschlag oder Seiten. / Describes a book or dust jacket that does show some signs of wear on either the binding, dust jacket or pages.

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• Titolo: Helps and Hints How to Protect Life and Property. Particulars and Recommendations of the Stadium, or British National Arena for Manly and Defensive Exercises
• Editore: Rarebooksclub.com
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1231837314
• ISBN 13: 9781231837313
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: very good

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1835 Excerpt: ...the quackeries of " chaunters" and dealers, who effect such appearances by administering the most deleterious drugs. A large lump of rock salt, placed into every manger, is an excellent practice, the horses delight in licking it, and it keeps them in health. Assafcetida, yet in small quantities, I also recommend occasionally, likewise to hang up some in the stable in a bag, for its odour helps to prevent infection; and so does garlick, although in an inferior degree. I cannot quit the stable without cautioning you against--Chaunters, as fraudulent horse-dealers are called, who, in their advertisements, extol (chaunt) their horses, under all manner of pretences; they will give you Any warrant, even in writing; and allow you the horse on trial even for a month, provided you pay them in cash! but when, to return the horse, you apply at the respectable place where they pretended to reside, under respectable, but assumed names, the answer will be, non est! They generally buy fine shaped, but injured, horses, which they make up by all sorts of artifices, nay, cruelties, to give them quite a young and tempting appearance: antimony, &c. they use internally, and bishoping, firing, nerving, blistering, &c. externally. You may know them by the following hints: they hire generally stables in some parts apparently belonging to respectable residences, but inquiry in the neighbourhood will soon apprize you of their being birds of passage; the groom, who shows the horse, generally betrays his character, by his looks and manner; and when you ask him to take the horse out, he will do so reluctantly, and rarely or ever will he fairly and repeatedly run him up and down before you, on the pavement, fearful, as he is, of the breaking down of their frail patchin...