Safety-triggers have been introduced to obviate, if possible, the fatal
accidents which have arisen from accidental discharges. Many plans have
been devised to effect this most desirable object. Among the most
ingenious, one by Goulding, and another by Moore, are among the most
novel, and probably the most effective. People must, however, be
miserably nervous, to render safety-triggers necessary.
STABLE, _s._ A place for horses.
Loftiness is very desirable in a stable. It should never be less than
twelve feet high, and the best method of ventilation is by means of a
chimney or square opening in the ceiling, communicating with the open
air, or it may be made in the form of a dome or cupola, which would be
more ornamental. The chimney need not be opened at the top so as to
admit the rain, but should be roofed, and have lateral openings by means
of weather-boards, as they are termed. As to the admission of air into
the stable, the usual means provided for that purpose are quite
sufficient; that is, by windows. The method adopted in barrack stables,
of making an opening in the wall, near the ground at the end of the
stable, is useless, to say the best of it. A stable, when properly
paved, and kept moderately clean, requires only a shallow, wide gutter,
twelve inches wide, and one inch deep. This, with a pail or two of water
thrown upon the floor, and swept off while the horse is at exercise,
will keep the stable perfectly clean and free from offensive smells. The
depth of a stable should not be less than eighteen feet, nor the height,
as I observed before, less than twelve. The width of a stall should not
be less than six feet clear. But, when there is sufficient room, it is a
much better plan to allow each horse a space of ten or twelve feet,
where he may be loose and exercise himself a little. This will be an
effectual means of avoiding swollen heels, and a great relief to horses
that are worked hard. With respect to the rack and manger, I shall
describe one which I have seen employed in a wagon-stable with the best
effect. It is intended for two horses; for horses, when a little
accustomed to each other, and working together, will always agree well
when kept in the same stall, especially when they have, as is the case
here, separate mangers, and are prevented by their halters from
interfering with each other’s corn. The space for two horses is twelve
feet. The mangers and rack are all on a level, and about three feet from
the ground. The manger should never be less than eighteen inches deep,
eighteen inches from the front to the back part, and two feet in length.
The rack should be four feet for one horse. The rack may be made with
staves in the front, like a common rack, but this is not necessary;
indeed, it is better to have it closed in front. The back part of the
rack should be an inclined plane made of wood; should be gradually
sloped towards the front; and should terminate about two feet down. Such
a rack will hold more hay than ever ought to be put before one horse.
The advantages of this rack are numerous. In the first place the hay is
easily put into it, and renders a hayloft over the stable unnecessary;
and this may be an inducement to the builder to make the stable as lofty
as it ought to be, and render other ventilation unnecessary. All the hay
that is put into this manger will be eaten; but in the common rack it is
well known that a large portion of the hay is often pulled down upon the
litter and trodden upon, whereby a considerable quantity is often
wasted. It prevents the hayseeds or dust from falling upon the horse, or
into his eyes; and, what is of considerable importance, though seldom
attended to, there will be an inducement to the groom to give the horse
hay in small quantities at a time, and frequently, from the little
trouble which attends putting it into the rack. The saving in hay that
may be effected by the use of this rack is so apparent that it need not
be dwelt upon. Some mischievous horses will throw out the hay with their
noses: but this may be effectually prevented by one or two cross
bars—that is, crossing the upper part of the crib from the back to the
front. This kind of rack and manger, from being boarded up in front,
will effectually prevent the litter from being kept constantly under the
horse’s head and eyes, by which he is compelled to breathe the vapours
which arise from it. The length of the halter should be only four feet
from the headstall to the ring through which it passes: this will admit
of his lying down with ease, and that is all which is required. The ring
should be placed close to that side where the manger is, and not in the
centre of the stall. The sides of the stall should be sufficiently high
and deep, to prevent horses from biting and kicking each other. In post
and wagon stables, where the stall is made for a pair of horses, the
manger will be placed at each end, and the hay-crib in the centre. The
window of the stable should be at the south-east end, and the door at
the opposite end. The window should be as high as the ceiling will admit
of, and in size proportioned to that of the stable. In one of twelve
feet high, it need not come down more than five feet, and will then be
seven feet from the ground, and out of the way of being broken. The
frame of the window should be moveable upon a pivot in the centre, and
opened by means of a cord running over a pulley in the ceiling, and
fastened by means of another cord. With a window of this kind, in a
stable of three or four horses, no other ventilation will be required: a
person never need be solicitous about finding openings for the air to
enter when there is sufficient room above, and means for it to escape.
It is a good plan to have two doors, or to have the common door divided
transversely, about four or five feet from the ground; the upper part
may then be occasionally left open. Where much light is admitted, the
walls of the stable should not be white, but of a stucco or lead colour,
and better if painted; for then they may always be washed clean with
soap and water, as well as the stalls, rack, and manger; and this should
be done once in two or three weeks, or a month at furthest. If the walls
are boarded up to the height of about five feet, and this, as well as
the stalls, painted of a light wainscot colour, it will look extremely
neat, and the under part of the wall will be kept drier, and look more
comfortable. A stable should be lighted by means of an argand lamp
suspended from the ceiling, and moveable. This will give a far better
light, is cheaper, and more secure than any other contrivance whatever,
except gas-light, and, if properly trimmed, will burn without a particle
of smoke. Instead of having a large corn chest in the stable, a handsome
seat may be made at the back of the stable extending as far as may be
necessary: in this there may be partitions to separate the beans, or the
bran, and places may be made to rest the arms upon, so that a gentleman
may sit down comfortably in his stable and see his horses taken care of.
A stable thus constructed will be found conducive to the health and the
comfort of horses, and will afford an inducement to the groom to attend
to every little circumstance which may contribute to cleanliness. He
will not allow the smallest bit of dung to remain swept up at one end of
the stable, as it commonly is. The pails should be kept outside, and not
standing about the stable, as they commonly are. If it is necessary to
take off the chill from water, it is much better and more easily done,
by the addition of a little hot water, than by suffering it to stand in
the stable; and while the horses are at exercise, the litter should be
all turned out to dry, and the floor well washed or swept out. A little
fresh straw may then be placed for the horses to stale upon. Litter thus
dried during the day will serve again as well as fresh straw for the
bottom of the bed, and be free from smell. A saving may be made in
litter by turning it out, and drying it as I have described; and if a
shed were built adjoining a stable, it may be done at all times, and may
serve also to exercise and clean a horse in wet weather.
Neither dogs, fowls, nor goats, should ever be permitted to enter a
stable; and dung should be kept at a distance from it. In speaking of
the arrangements of the stable, it may not be amiss to notice what I
consider a good contrivance in cleaning horses, that is, to have two
straps, one on each side the stall, about one yard from the head of it.
By these the horse may be fastened during the time he is cleaned, by
which means he will be effectually prevented from biting the manger or
the groom; and being kept back in the stall, the groom will be better
able to clean the front of his fore legs, chest, and neck, and be able
to move round him: this is better than strapping him to the rack. When
the common rack and manger are preferred, the rack staves should be
straight, and brought nearly down to the manger, and this may easily be
done without the necessity of a hay loft, and the manger may be made
deep and wide as I have described it.
* * * * *
The heat of a stable should be graduated by a thermometer, always kept
there for the purpose. Our feelings are but a feeble guide to our
judgment in measuring temperature. It would be well that the stable heat
should seldom reach, but never exceed, 50 degrees of Fahrenheit in
winter, or 65 in summer. To renew the air, the stable should be well
ventilated; and such ventilation should be as near the ceiling or top of
the stable as possible, as the impure air ascends. The ventilators,
sometimes seen, which revolve quickly on their own centres, are not, I
think, good, because they occasion a draught of air; for which reason
likewise windows should be so constructed as not to open directly on
either the front or the rear of the horse. One of the best methods of
ventilation is by means of one or more tubes or funnels, according to
the size of the stable, which should be let into the ceiling, presenting
below a larger end of twelve or eighteen inches square, which, as it
ascends, should narrow at its summit to about four or five inches; and
this should pass out at the roof of the building, having a raised cup
over its top to prevent the wet from descending. Light appears
essentially necessary to a stable; the exit from a dark one must be a
painful stimulus to the eyes of the horse, and his imperfect vision
makes him startlish and irritable. Dark stables are supposed to
encourage feeding; and it is not impossible but the horses of eastern
countries eat most during the night. It also, it is thought, induces
them to lie down more. The greatest encouragement to the latter is a
loose box, and to the former air, exercise, and soft water. Stables
should be well ceiled, and that very closely: when this is not the case,
not only does the dust from the hayloft fall on the horse, but it
frequently enters his eyes; and the impure air, composed of nitrogen and
ammoniacal gas, which always ascends, lodges in the hay above. In fact,
it would be better that both the hay and corn should be altogether
removed from the sphere of action of the ammoniacal effluvia of the
stable, and only brought to the animals as they are wanted. Partial
draughts of air in a stable should be carefully avoided, as extremely
injurious to horses: a very lofty ceiling without an upper story, is the
best preventive to this. Narrow stalls are very prejudicial to horses;
strains in the back are often occasioned by them; and whenever a stall
is less than six feet wide, the groom should have peremptory orders
never to turn the horse out of it, but always to back. Bars or bails are
also objectionable, from the ease with which horses may play with and
kick each other over them, and likewise because it is seldom that horses
eat alike in point of quickness; and thus, when they are separated by
bars only, the slowest eater gets robbed of his food.
The acclivity of the generality of stalls is also a very serious
objection to them, for they occasion a horse to stand unequally, and an
undue proportion of weight is thrown on the hinder extremities: the
declivity also puts the flexor tendons of both the hind and fore legs on
a continual stretch, and by it probably many horses are injured. The
smallest possible slope only should be allowed: neither is the central
grating a remedy for this inconvenience; for it not only is useless as
regards mares, but it is rather injurious, because it retains the urine,
which thus continues to diffuse at every moment the effluvia it should
be so much our study to avoid. It is much better that each stall should
be furnished with a grating placed over a small drain at the foot of the
stall, which should be so constructed, as to carry off the urine or
washings from each horse into one common out-door cesspool perfectly
secured against the access of the external air, that an injurious
effluvia may not pass up through the gratings. Professor Peal, in his
excellent _Observations_, has entered largely into the injurious effects
of the ammoniacal exhalations arising from the urine: to these he
attributes, in a great measure, the ophthalmia by which so many valuable
horses are ruined. This separation of volatile alkali is not confined to
the urinary secretion alone—it extends to the fæces also, and to both
the sensible, and to the insensible perspiration. The urine, from the
experiments of that able chemist, Dr. Egan, begins to separate ammonia
in a few hours after its evacuation from the body, and there is reason
to suppose that the fæces as readily fall into this early decomposition;
therefore a necessity exists for their speedy removal also.
There is much contrariety of opinion relative to the propriety of
permitting horses to stand during the day on litter; and there are
cogent arguments for and against it. Litter entices horses to lie down
during the day, which relieves fatigue, and is favourable to the
recovery of over-strained limbs: it also prevents an uneven or hurtful
pressure on the feet when it is cobble-paved. On the other hand, gross
feeding horses are apt to eat their litter, which is not desirable. It
is, likewise, too apt to retain the urine, and thereby to generate the
acrid salts we have described. Constantly standing on straw makes many
horses’ legs swell, which is proved by removing it, when such legs
immediately return to their proper size: the warmth and moisture
retained in it, likewise, are very apt to occasion cracks and swelled
legs. Litter retained is probably injurious to the feet also; for if
horn has a tendency to contract by the application of heat, the horn of
the feet being placed so many hours within it, must be subjected to this
additional stimulus to contraction. In my own stables no litter is ever
suffered to remain under the fore feet during the day: on the contrary,
the horses stand on the bare bricks, which in summer are watered to make
them more cool. Behind, a little straw is strewed, because horses are
apt to kick and break the bricks with their hinder feet, and because,
when no gratings exist, or no slope is present, the litter thus placed
sucks up the moisture of the urine, which would be detrimental to the
hinder feet, which are more liable to thrushes than contraction.
The box is a necessary appendage to every good stable; indeed, it
may, with great propriety, form a part of the stable: and I would
advise that, whenever a new one be erected, so to frame it, that
every standing may, by a moveable partition, be readily made into a
distinct and separate box. It would be well, were in-door horses
more generally accustomed to spend their leisure time in boxes than
stalls: boxes are advantageous to the jaded horse, by encouraging
him to lie down during the day; they are advantageous to the idle
horse, by encouraging him to exercise himself. By means of boxes,
the evils of long frosts to the hunter are avoided; and the
unrestrained enjoyment of freedom is relished by all. A loose box
wholly unconnected with the stable is also a valuable appendage to a
gentleman’s establishment: it may thus with impunity be the
receptacle of a contagious case. The detached box should be so
constructed as to be capable of being cooled to nearly the
temperature of the external air, or, when necessary, to be made as
warm as requisite for some cases of sickness. No projections should
be allowed in its walls to hurt the hips, in cases of falling from
weakness, staggers, &c. It should, also, have a grate in the centre
communicating with an outer cesspool, with a general slight bearing
of the flooring to the grating: into a large box of this
description, every horse taken up from grass should be first put, to
prevent the access of the worst colds to which horses are liable,
which are those caught on the sudden remove from a cool into a
heated temperature.—_White_—_Blaine’s Outlines of the Veterinary
Art._
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Transcriber’s note:
Variations in hyphenation and spelling, excepting clear outliers, have
been retained.
Out of place entries have been moved into alphabetical order, respecting
the original's combined sorting of i/j and u/v.
Receipt formatting has been regularized.
All instances of ‘N. B.’ have been regularized to ‘N.B.’
Age of a Horse, ‘maxiliary’ changed to ‘maxillary,’ “the sub-maxillary
space is”
Age of a Horse, comma struck after ‘back,’ “the back sinks”
Alum, ‘diabates’ changed to ‘diabetes,’ “diarrhœa, diabetes, &c.”
Angling, quotes regularized.
Arm, ‘arm’ changed to ‘hand,’ “the hand to the shoulder”
Babillard, ‘Vide’ italicized, “the white-throat. (_Vide_ Montagu”
Bacon, ‘of’ inserted after ‘flesh,’ “The flesh of a hog”
Balling-Iron, comma changed to full stop after ‘horses,’ “balls to
horses. It is”
Balsam, full stop inserted after ‘Peru,’ “Balsam of Peru.”
Barrel, double quote inserted before ‘I,’ ““I saw the process of”
Bearward, ‘Bearward’ changed to small caps, “BEARWARD, s. A keeper of”
Belly-bound, ‘Belly-bound’ changed to small caps, “BELLY-BOUND, a.
Costive.”
Billiards, full stop changed to comma after ‘same,’ “behind the same,
and the”
Bird, s., double quote inserted after ‘days,’ “Africa, in a few days.””
Birdlime, ‘mistleto’ changed to ‘misletoe,’ “The misletoe affords a”
Birds, Method of Preserving, double quote inserted after ‘solution,’
“the sublimate solution.””
Bitch, full stop changed to comma after ‘cunning,’ “very cunning, and
often”
Blackbird, double quote inserted after ‘snares,’ “and all sorts of
snares.””
Cartouch, ‘it’ changed to ‘is,’ “It is fired out of”
Castrate, ‘D’Arboval’ changed to ‘d’Arboval,’ “and as Hurtrel d’Arboval”
Certificate for killing Game, full stop changed to comma after ‘6d.,’
“3l. 13s. 6d., and one”
The Charmer, comma changed to full stop after ‘required,’ “was required.
In his”
Cinnamon, comma changed to full stop after ‘colour,’ “should hurt your
colour.”
Clipping, double quote inserted after ‘lungs,’ “ramifications of the
lungs.””
Clipping, ‘god’ changed to ‘got,’ “got rid of the latter”
Cob, ‘difficulty’ changed to ‘difficult,’ “more difficult than if”
Cob, ‘disheatening’ changed to ‘disheartening,’ “be almost
disheartening”
Cock, s., ‘1664’ changed to ‘1654,’ “Cromwell, March 31, 1654.”
The Cocker, full stop changed to comma after ‘extrarius,’ “Canis
extrarius, Var. B.”
Colic, ‘Tinture’ changed to ‘Tincture,’ “Tincture of opium”
Condition, ‘heath’ changed to ‘health,’ “respect out of health”
Coot, full stop inserted after ‘Linn,’ “Fulica aterrima, Linn.”
Cormorant, ‘dispsition’ changed to ‘disposition,’ “their disposition, it
seems”
Cough, v., ‘pereverance’ changed to ‘perseverance,’ “require a steady
perseverance”
Coulterneb, double quote inserted before ‘the,’ ““the raven makes bold”
Crack, ‘plainful’ changed to ‘painful,’ “are very painful, often”
Cram, ‘sheeps’’ changed to ‘sheep’s,’ “and suet, sheep’s plucks”
Cricket, ‘D’Urfey’ changed to ‘d’Urfey,’ “songs published by d’Urfey”
Cricket, ‘bails’ changed to ‘bales,’ “and the bales must be”
Cricket, ‘middle wicket’ changed to ‘middle-wicket,’ “between the
middle-wicket and”
Decoy, v., ‘skreens’ changed to ‘screens,’ “sides, screens formed of”
Detonating Powder, comma changed to full stop after ‘potash,’ “of
oxymuriate of potash.”
Distemper, quotes surrounding passage from Darwin regularized.
Dog, comma changed to full stop after ‘Foxhound’ in synopsis,
“Foxhound.”
Dotterel, ‘Dottrel’ changed to ‘Dotterel,’ “Dotterel, (Charadrius
morinellus”
Dotterel, ‘a’ changed to ‘à,’ “Le Petit Pluvier à collier”
Duck, full stop inserted after ‘shell-fish,’ “chiefly upon shell-fish.”
Duck, ‘Golden Eye’ changed to ‘Golden-Eye,’ “Vide Golden-Eye”
Eagle, second ‘his’ struck, “next to his throat”
Ecarté, ‘9’ changed to ‘8,’ “8. When the pack”
Enter, full stop inserted after ‘hounds,’ “To enter hounds.”
Feet, double quote inserted after ‘branch,’ “adhere to the branch.””
Feet, ‘swim,ming’ changed to ‘swimming,’ “the action of swimming”
Feet, ‘pressnre’ changed to ‘pressure,’ “bear much pressure; and”
Feet, ‘regidity’ changed to ‘rigidity,’ “So severe a rigidity”
Fish, v., double quote inserted after ‘ratio,’ “in an equal ratio.””
Fish, v., quotes surrounding maxims regularized.
Fit, comma changed to full stop after ‘hunting,’ “has fits when
hunting.”
Fly, s., comma changed to full stop after ‘of,’ “disapprove of. Without”
Fly, s., full stop changed to semi-colon after ‘summer,’ “the summer;
light rail”
Fox, ‘sportman’ changed to ‘sportsman,’ “the sportsman in question”
Foxhound, full stop changed to comma after ‘said,’ “distich it is said,”
Gallinaceous Birds, double quote inserted after ‘favourite,’ “the cock’s
greatest favourite.””
Gannet, ‘&c’ changed to ‘&c.,’ “his pole-hook, &c.; and”
Garganey, second ‘and’ struck, “most agreeable and sprightly”
Garganey, ‘marked’ changed to ‘mark,’ “obscure white mark over”
Godwit, ‘distaace’ changed to ‘distance,’ “at a great distance”
Goose, ‘nevers’ changed to ‘never,’ “and never fires till”
Gravitating Stops, substantive type ‘s.’ added, “Gravitating Stops, s.”
Greyhound, double quote inserted after ‘white,’ “black and white.””
Grouse, ‘not’ struck after ‘is,’ “it is to be met”
Guaiacum, ‘Guiacum’ changed to ‘Guaiacum,’ “called Guaiacum officinale”
Guernsey Partridge, ‘linular’ changed to ‘linear,’ “linear streaks of
black”
Gun, full stop struck after ‘Hawker,’ “Daniel—Hawker—Wild Sports.”
Hammer, ‘extinquished’ changed to ‘extinguished,’ “they are
extinguished”
Haul, s., full stop inserted after ‘s,’ “Haul, s. Pull, violence”
Hazard, s., ‘3’ inserted before ‘2,’ “7 [to] 5 [is] 3 [to] 2”
Hazard, s., ‘4’ inserted before ‘3,’ “9 [to] 4 [is] 4 [to] 3”
Heron, ‘he’ changed to ‘the,’ “is on the ground”
Horse, s., ‘tendo’ changed to ‘tendon,’ “the tendon Achillis prominent”
Hunt, double quote inserted after ‘more,’ “sunk to rise no more.””
Hunter, ‘sime’ changed to ‘time,’ “previously to that time”
Hunter, ‘mangement’ changed to ‘management,’ “and good stable
management”
Hydrophobia, ‘Darw’ changed to ‘Darwin,’ “Gilman—Darwin—Marochetti”
Iron, s., ‘drams’ changed to ‘drachms,’ “No. 6, 2 drachms to 4. No. 7, 2
drachms to 4”
Jackdaw, comma changed to apostrophe after ‘partridges,’ “fond of
partridges’ eggs”
Kennel, s., ‘knowlenge’ changed to ‘knowledge,’ “of his practical
knowledge”
Kilderkin, comma changed to apostrophe after ‘gallons,’ “eighteen
gallons’ capacity”
Kingfisher, ‘enable’ changed to ‘enabled,’ “eye is enabled to follow”
Landrail, ‘maks’ changed to ‘makes,’ “It makes its appearance”
Linnet, double quote inserted before ‘I,’ ““I have even,””
Lock, ‘turn-screw’ changed to ‘turnscrew,’ “the turnscrew should on no”
Lock, ‘pntting’ changed to ‘putting,’ “and putting on the feather”
Lure, full stop changed to comma after ‘it,’ “flying towards it, but so”
Mange, ‘Oxmuriate’ changed to ‘Oxymuriate,’ “No. 8. Oxymuriate of
quicksilver”
Mange, parenthesis inserted after ‘sulphur,’ “potash (liver of sulphur)”
Mastication, second ‘of’ struck, “outside of the higher grinders”
Mastiff, ‘iuvariable’ changed to ‘invariable,’ “whose invariable
practice”
Minnow, ‘appers’ changed to ‘appears,’ “The minnow appears first”
Minnow, ‘so’ changed to ‘to,’ “so essential to be seen”
Muscovy, comma inserted after ‘Buff.,’ “Le Canard Musque, Buff.), s.”
Orbits, substantive type ‘s.’ added after ‘Linn.,’ “Linn.) s. In
ornithology”
Owl, full stop inserted after ‘Linn,’ “Strix Bubo, Linn.”
Perch, second ‘be’ struck, “hook may be varied”
Pigeons, ‘monoganous’ changed to ‘monogamous,’ “The pigeon is
monogamous”
Pike, ‘a-year’ changed to ‘a year,’ “four pounds a year”
Plover, ‘Oetober’ changed to ‘October,’ “in the marshes in October”
Plumage, ‘’ changed to ‘,’ “weather stops its progress”
Poison, ‘immediatel yat’ changed to ‘immediately at,’ “are not
immediately at”
Pond, ‘Flat fish’ and ‘flounders’ italicized, “_Flat fish_ or
_flounders_”
Pond, comma changed to full stop after ‘years,’ “fifty-eight years. Carp
and”
Pug Dog, ‘bebecoming’ changed to ‘becoming,’ “now becoming very scarce”
Punt, ‘alloted’ changed to ‘allotted,’ “period allotted for it”
Redwing, full stop inserted after ‘Linn,’ “Turdus Iliacus, Linn.”
Rifle, ‘ther’ struck after ‘whether,’ “that whether one or two”
Rifle, ‘follow’ changed to ‘follows,’ “shots were as follows”
Rifle, ‘manufactury’ changed to ‘manufactory,’ “to the manufactory, did”
Ringdove, ‘semcircular’ changed to ‘semicircular,’ “a semicircular line
of white”
Roach, second ‘to’ struck, “a May or ant-fly is to be sunk”
Roaring, ‘cirstances’ changed to ‘circumstances,’ “be regulated by
circumstances”
Rod, parenthesis inserted before ‘some,’ “for use; (some, however”
Ruff, ‘whisp’ changed to ‘wisp,’ “with a wisp of straw”
Salmon, full stop inserted after ‘fishing,’ “Salmon fishing.”
Sandpiper, ‘tbe’ changed to ‘the,’ “black; the belly white”
Sandpiper, comma changed to full stop after ‘breadth,’ “nineteen in
breadth. The”
Sculk, ‘hidingplaces’ changed to ‘hiding-places,’ “To lurk in
hiding-places”
Sea-fishing, ‘phosporic’ changed to ‘phosphoric,’ “bait of phosphoric
brilliancy”
Shoeing, comma changed to full stop after ‘diligent,’ “and diligent. He
should likewise”
Shoeing, ‘difficulty’ changed to ‘difficult,’ “exceedingly difficult to
introduce”
Sleep, ‘day light’ changed to ‘day-light,’ “even in broad day-light”
Sling, v., ‘to’ inserted after ‘not,’ “is not to be had”
Song, hyphen changed to space after ‘billed,’ “the hard-billed species”
Staghound, ‘snccession’ changed to ‘succession,’ “the keepers in
succession”
Stern, s., first entry, full stop inserted after ‘s,’ “Stern, s. The
hinder”
Surfeit, s., ‘ever’ changed to ‘over,’ “universally over the body”
Surfeit, s., full stop inserted after ‘Blaine,’ “the same.—The
Horse—Blaine.”
Swallow, s., second entry, semi-colon changed to comma after ‘wings,’
“forked; wings, legs short”
Teal, ‘tranverse’ changed to ‘transverse,’ “white transverse waved
lines”
Tench, comma changed to full stop after ‘Shoemaker,’ “the Shoemaker.
They take”
Tench, second ‘or’ struck, “and No. 9 or 10 hook; fish”
Tennis, ‘chance’ changed to ‘chace,’ “case it is a chace at 1, 2, &c.”
Terrier, comma struck after ‘variety,’ “Canis terrarius, variety α.”
Throughbred changed to Thoroughbred, entry re-located.
Tooth, full stop changed to comma after ‘tendency,’ “its septic
tendency, and”
Training, ‘gradudually’ changed to ‘gradually,’ “his weight was
gradually reduced”
Trespasser, full stop changed to comma after ‘Trespasser,’ “Trespasser,
s. An offender”
Vingt-un, ‘twenty one’ changed to ‘twenty-one,’ “number less than
twenty-one”
Water Dog, second ‘to’ struck, “much attached to his master”
Water Ousel, comma changed to full stop after ‘Linn,’ “Sturnus Cinclus,
Linn.”
Whimbrel, semi-colon changed to comma after ‘colour,’ “the same colour,
but the”
White, ‘albuginous’ changed to ‘albuminous,’ “the albuminous part of
eggs”
Wild Dog, ‘chace’ changed to ‘chase,’ “During the chase, which occupied”
Wing, s., comma inserted after ‘primores,’ “primary quills, (primores,
Linn.)”
Worm, full stop inserted after ‘Linn,’ “Cowhage (dolichos pruriens,
Linn.)”
Yacht, ‘Southhampton’ changed to ‘Southampton,’ “to Cowes and to
Southampton”
Yacht, ‘for-forfeit’ changed to ‘forfeit,’ “shall forfeit all claim to
the prize”
Yacht, ‘regrad’ changed to ‘regard,’ “with regard to the sailing”
Yarwhip, ‘twelves’ changed to ‘twelve,’ “weight about twelve ounces”
Zoology, double quote inserted after ‘body,’ “and move the body.””