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pend upon it he will have the " City arms " most 

 legibly engraved upon him before he is eight years old. 

 If he escapes till then, it is a clear proof that he has 

 never been tired ; for the first time he is so, down he 

 will be sure to drop. 



Broken knees are called the " City arms/' from the 

 inhabitants at the east end of London being at one 

 period the principal purchasers of the fashionable horses 

 thus disfigured. 



When your chief desire is that your horse should not 

 fall, 1 care less about the length and beauty of the hind 

 quarters than the proper form of the fore ones, unless 

 price is no object, when you may have the nearer 

 approximation to perfection. Upright shoulders are 

 not of much consequence in harness, as the weight of 

 draught assists the balance. 



The mere cutting of the skin, without further in- 

 jury, does not render the horse weaker on his legs than 

 he was before the accident. You may be assured 

 that he was as frightened at falliog as his rider ; and 

 the only mischief he has done is in having decreased, 

 not his working, but his market, price. 



Broken Knees. 



Should the horse at any time have been wounded 

 by falling, the injury he has sustained is to be taken 

 into consideration. 



