2-,; now TO MAKK THE FARA PAY. 



a huli.Jr.jd yards, and then jumping oat; apply the ear to the 

 chest, and a double expiration will be heard. Thick AVind, 

 roaring, and wljislling, are only the earlier stages of broken 

 wind, and can be detected by the above process. Another 

 rnetliod of detecting these defects, is to grasp the throat from 

 the front, and compress it until he is forced to cough. A sound 

 borsi? will cough once, and recover his wind with a clear, sonor- 

 ous inhalation and exhalation. The diseased horse will utter a 

 broken, rattling cough, and recover his breath with a long, 

 wlieezing, laVjorious rattle. 



Defkcts ix the Legs and Feet cannot always -be dis- 

 .-overed, but there are certain marks that surely indicate them. 

 White spots on the knees show that the horse has broken his 

 knees at some time or other, and as it is usually by falling, 

 which is likely to occur again, the chances are that a broken 

 kneed horse is a stumbler. Says Herbert, " In examining the 

 legs of a horse, the purchaser should first stand with his face to 

 the broadside of the horse as he stands on flat ground, and ob- 

 serve whether he rests perpendicularly on all his legs, having 

 the natural proportion of his weight on each leg stmightly, 

 squarely, and directly ; or whether he stands with all his legs 

 8tradd4cd outside of their true aplomb ; or with all drawn to- 

 gether under the centre of his belly, as if he were trying to 

 stick them all into a hat; or lastly, whether he favors one. or 

 more of his legs, either by pointing it forward, or by placing it 

 in any position in which no weight at all, or a very small stress 

 of weiglit, is thrown upon it. A horse may apparently favor 

 one foot accidentally from a casual impatience or restlessness. 

 He is not therefore to be rejected because he points a toe, once 

 or twice. But if he seem to do so he should be constantly 

 brought back to his original position, in which he must bear 

 equally on each foot, wlicn, if he be found constantly to favor 



