The School of Recreation (1696 edition) - Or a Guide to the Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, - Riding, Racing, Fireworks, Military Discipline, The Science - of Defence by Robert Howlett
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uncloath'd, from his _Ear-tips_ to his _Tayle_, and his whole Body
intirely (save his Legs under the Knees, and Cambrels) with an _Iron-Comb_; then Dust him, and Rub him with a Brush of _Bristles_ over again; Dust him again, and wetting your hand in clean Water, rub off all the loose Hairs, and so rub him dry as at first; then with a fine _Hair Cloth_ rub him all over; and lastly, with a fine Linnen Cloth; and then pick his Eyes, Nostrils, Sheath, Cods, Tuel, and Feet clean. The best Food for your _Racer_, is good, sweet, well dryed, sunned, and beaten _Oats_: Or else Bread made of one part Beans, and two parts _Wheat_ (_i.e._) two Bushels _Wheat_, to one of _Beans_, ground together: Boult through a fine Range half a Bushel of fine _Meal_, and bake that into two or three Loaves by it self, and with water and good store of _Barm_, knead up, and bake the rest in great Loaves, having sifted it through a _Meal-sieve_: (But to your finer, you would do well to put the whites of Twenty or thirty _Eggs_, and with the _Barm_ a little _Ale_, 'tis no matter how little water:) With the Courser feed him on his Resting days, on his Labouring days with the finer. The best time for feeding your _Runner_ on his Resting days is, after his Watering in the Morning, at One a Clock at Noon, after his watering in the Evening, and at nine or ten a Clock at nights: On his Days of Labour, two Hours after he is throughly Cold outwardly and inwardly, as before. As for the Proportion of Meat, I shall not confine your Love to a Quantity, only give him a little at once, as long as his Appetite is Good: When he begins to fumble and play with his Meat, hold your hand, shut up your Sack. |
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