IN SEAKCH OF A HORSE. 



lOT 



last fifteen weeks in the foot that I suspected. He is 

 now fit for nothing but the leader of a stage. There 

 was no other symptom of disease when I first ex- 

 amined him, than an unnatural heat about the hoof; 

 this exhibited itself in the morning, after riding him 

 for about three miles, but I found that the warmth 

 had abated in the course of an hour, so as to leave 

 the matter rather equivocal. In the afternoon I 

 rode him again the same distance, but rather faster, 

 and then the effect was decisive; the diseased foot 

 retained its heat till the following morning. 



