34 PURCHASING FROM THE STABLES. 



internal disorganization about the joints of the 

 foot, which sooner or later will produce one of 

 those lamenesses that " come of themselves." 

 You cannot reasonably expect to dispose of a 

 horse again with these large rounded shank- 

 bones and dents, excejit as a baggage-horse. 



WiNDGALLS are a most annoying eye-sore. As 

 unfair or overwork produced them, so they will 

 increase on work. If they are not large, and 

 no roundness of the shank-bone accompanies 

 them, and you are not particular as to appear- 

 ance, he may be well worth half price : never 

 purchase, however, a horse for the turf, that 

 shows by such evident signs as all these, the 

 combined effects of bad legs, mismanagement, 

 and overwork. To the former sagacious maxim 

 of the three essential bones, my stable acquaint- 

 ance impressed on me another injunction, which 

 I hand to you, with advice to keep it uppermost 

 in your memory : — *' Never fall in love with 

 thick ankles." A fresh horse, he said, like a 

 French danseuse, is always delicately clean at 

 this much-admired part. 



