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The lips should be thin and evenly closed, 

 for the under lip hanging loose is a very unfa- 

 vourable omen of his running. 



The eye is never too large, and scarcely ever 

 too prominent. A small eye should be objected 

 to, as being more liable to disease, and symp- 

 tomatic of cross blood. I warn you to look 

 well into the eyes, so very many bear the milky 

 marks, the result of inflammation. Whenever 

 you find one with a cloudy appearance round the 

 edge and close to the white, or one with white 

 marks streaked across the centre, or one which 

 on a close examination appears a little smaller 

 than the other, or puckered in the lids, depend 

 upon it there has been disease, which is likely 

 to return. Recollect a horse's eyes are not 

 placed like a man's : if he is blind with one 

 eye, he is nuable, without turning his head 

 round, to see any thing on that side with the 

 other. The slightest derangement in the eye 

 may at times prevent him using his speed to 

 the utmost. Should any speck of white be ob- 

 servable near the centre of the eye, it has been 

 caused by some blow or hurt, and may inter- 

 fere with the passage of the light through the 

 pupil : you should therefore distrust it, for it is 

 a very ugly blemish at all events, and reduces 

 the value considerably. Some few others bear 



