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5ars when he is travelling to have them firm, 

 mark every motion of his feet by a slouch of 

 his ears like a hog. ' 



A lean forehead, swelling outward, the mark or feather 

 in his face set high, with a white star or ratch of an in- 

 different size, and even placed, or a white snip on the 

 nose or lip, they are all marks of beauty and goodness ; 

 on the contrary, a fat, cloudy, or frowning countenance, 

 the mark in his face standing low, as under his eyes, if 

 his star or ratch stand awry, and instead of a snip, his 

 nose be raw, and unhairy, or his face generally bald, 

 they are signs of deformity. 



THE STRANGLES. 



This is a distemper to which colts and young horses 

 are particularly liable. It begins with a swelling 

 between the jaw-bones, which frequently extends to the 

 muscles of the tongue, and is generally attended with 

 great heat, pain, and inflammation. 



In purchasing a horse, handle his cheeks or chaps, 

 and if you find the bones lean and thin, the space wide 

 between them, the thropple or wind-pipe big as you can 

 gripe, and the void place without knots or kernels, and 

 the jaws so great that the neck seems to couch within 

 them, they are all signs of great wind, courage, soundness 

 of head and body ; on the contrary, if the chaps are 

 fat and thick, the space between them closed up with 

 gross substance, and the thropple little, they are signs 

 of short wind and much inward foulness: should the 

 void place be full of knots and kernels, beware of the 

 strangles or glanders, the former of which may be easily 

 discovered by the swelling between the two nether jaw- 

 bones, which discharges a white matter. There is also 



