 | Nimrod - 1831 - 546 pages
...orchard on a cold winter's day. Let us therefore bestow a little time in endeavoring to discover why a warm, or what by many would be called a hot, stable...horse is originally a native of a warm country; and we need go no farther than the Scotch Highlands or Welch mountains to prove that he degenerates in... | |
 | John Mills - Sports - 1845 - 498 pages
...sitting in a cool chamber with an empty grate, in the months of frosty winter. It should be remembered, that the horse is originally a native of a warm country ; and while he improves in a warm one, he always degenerates in cold regions. There is no better proof of... | |
 | John Stewart - Horses - 1860 - 456 pages
...stables. The arguments are such as usually come from stablemen. " We must recollect," says Nimrod, " that the horse is originally a native of a warm country, and we need go no farther than the Scotch Highlands or Welsh mountains to prove that he degenerates in... | |
 | Nimrod, Frank Townend Barton - Fox hunting - 1908 - 436 pages
...orchard on a cold winter's day. Let us therefore bestow a little time in endeavouring to discover why a warm, or what by many would be called a hot, stable...horse is originally a native of a warm country ; and we need go no farther than the Scotch Highlands or Welsh mountains to prove that he degenerates in... | |
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Let us therefore bestow a little time in endeavouring to discover why a warm, or what by many would be called a hot, stable is essential to the good condition of the horse. It is with all improvements upon old systems as with every infant science, we... 