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extent as to have given rise to the expression, " kicking 

 a sixpence along"), is sometimes a habit only, and not 

 dangerous ; so that, if this is not the result of disease, 

 the horse is SOUND. 



The above remarks refer only to extremely low 

 action. 



Action, on the contrary, may be too high for practical 

 purposes ; it is then frequently called " clambering." 



Stumbling. 



Stumbling is often occasioned by inflammation of tb 

 feet arising from tightness of shoes, or from unequ; 

 pressure. A horse liable, from these causes, to stuinbl 

 is UNSOUN 



In most instances, stumbling will vanish when the 

 promoting cause is removed ; and even when that cause I 

 is chronic inflammation of the feet, the disease may be | 

 greatly relieved, and the stumbling propensity much I 

 diminished. 



It is here important to state that when a horse 1 

 is cured, he is sound ; for many persons allege that 1 

 a horse, once unsound, is unsound for ever. 



Certainly, there are some diseases that leave lasting I 

 traces ; and, in such cases, although the active principle 1 

 of the disease be so far cured, that it no longer 

 endangers the animal's life, or that, if it progress 



