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When there is no inflammation present, the various 

 diseases of this organ are easily detected, as well 

 as the injury which the eyes have received from 

 the inflammations they have already undergone; but 

 as this is only to be acquired by practice, it will 

 be unnecessary for me to occupy further space in 

 attempting to explain that which would not assist 

 those who are not already acquainted with the eye 

 under all circumstances. I would merely observe, as a 

 general rule, that the eyes of those horses most subject 

 to disorder appear small, and the upper lid wrinkled : 

 they are termed " buck-eyed." Every stage of shying 

 proceeding from disease is an UNSOUNDNESS. 



Not so where it is a matured habit produced by either 

 a nervous or brutal user ; in that case it is a VICE. 



It is not, however, a vice till it becomes a confirmed 

 habit, because if, during the early stages the horse 

 changes into judicious hands, he ceases to do wrong. 



Patience, and riding as directed in my work on 

 " The Horse/' will soon cure this. 



When the horse starts or plays from want of exercise, 

 or from a sudden noise, of an unusual kind, or where it 

 arises from standing in a dark stable, provided that the 

 eyes are not seriously injured, and that the pupils soon 

 contract from the dilatation the dark has occasioned to 

 their natural size, he is free from vice and SOUND. 



'o keep him sound the purchaser must put him into 



