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lawsuit. Here is a drawing of a hock, having upon it a 

 spavin that, until treated, will always lame a horse. If 

 there be an absence of this neat little enlargement which 

 you can fee/ with the tips of your index and middle 

 fingers (using none other), and the horse goes sound, the 

 less you say abo'it his being spavined the better. By all 



Fig. 8. 



means compare the fee/ of this locality with the same 

 locality on the opposite hock, but mind you do it with 

 the same parts of the same hand. Do not go behind the 

 horse and make a pretence of placing hands on the 

 spavin place of each hock and comparing them simul- 

 taneously ; because, let me tell you, no one can do this. 



