86 WARRANTY OF 



Vices. 



In speaking of the vices of horses, we must first 

 observe that a warranty of soundness does not infer that 

 the horse is free from vice, unless such be particularly 

 expressed. Next, you must bear in mind that a very 

 vicious horse may be a very sound one, and that, too, 

 because perhaps on account of his bad habits his 

 owners may have been afraid of using him. 



Vice may be either that which is dangerous to those 

 who have to do with the animal, being confined to either 

 the stable, to the work generally, or to only one particular 

 kind of work ; or it may be of a nature to affect only 

 .the horse himself, or his master in a pecuniary point 

 of view, by lessening the value. Of such last may be 

 mentioned wind-suckers, crib-biters, weavers, horses 

 having a determined trick of getting loose in the stable, 

 (although there may be a certain degree of innocence in 

 their mischief,) for they may be the cause of injury to 

 themselves or others. 



Kicking one another, or at people, either in their 

 work or at any other time, if with ill nature, is a VICE. 



Biting one another, or those about them, unless in 

 play, or whatever trick tends to the injury of themselves 

 or others, is a VICE. 



In the first or most serious class of vice may be 



