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ness existed prior to the change of ownership, and that 

 the horse had not been used, as is generally the case 

 with horses of his class, for six weeks after his cure, 

 then the animal is returnable. A horse, therefore, 

 that is turned out to grass after having been afflicted 

 with lameness, (unless it can be proved that he has been 

 out for a very considerable period, and that he has 

 been sound during a portion of that time,) cannot 

 properly be warranted as sound, and is returnable if 

 he becomes unsound in the part affected before. 



Provided that the animal had been properly used 

 according to his class and condition, and that no 

 lameness takes place within a month after he com- 

 mences work, whether in the service of his new or 

 his late owner, the warranty would cease at the end of 

 a month. The safest way, therefore, is not to warrant 

 the horse until he has been at least six weeks at 

 ordinary work after a perfect cure has been effected. 



As there are some physicians who assert that nobody 

 is perfectly sane, and that every one is insane upon one 

 topic or another, so there will be found enlightened 

 eterinarians who assert that there are no sound horses. 

 Certainly not, if they have ever done a day's work, 

 f the slightest deviation from the state in which the 

 It was, prior to beginning work, is to be significant 

 f unsoundness, I grant that with used horses they are 

 ight. The hard condition of the working horse, which 

 [y is the cause of his endurance, is, according to 



