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totally lost the use of one of his optics, you may 

 chronicle thus : " Sunfish," a grey gelding, etc., 

 " never takes his eyes off his fences." 



The roan that persistently jibs along the road, and 

 which no amount of pressure will induce, before his 

 own good time, to proceed, is, moreover, surely " a 

 good stayer," and the little whistling black, who 

 tunes away all the while, may be adequately 

 described as "Blackbird," a black gelding, six 

 years, ''goes like a bird in any country." 



The liver-chestnut, who is, alas, subject to staggers, 

 is necessarily, if naught else, a *'fit" horse for any 

 purpose, and the horse whose gait is crippled by 

 those two deep-seated corns, in addition to other 

 embellishments, may be entered as /'never off his 

 corn." 



That confirmed roarer, old " Steam-engine," you 

 may characterise as a horse "whose performances 

 speak for themselves," and the soft yellow bay, who 

 can't struggle through dirt shoe deep, is, if good for 

 anything, " a horse for which no day is too hard." 



The old white " Centipede," with the ricked back, 

 you may write down as " a straightforward horse," 

 for he is that or nothing, as you well know he can't 

 go backwards. Hence " an improving horse " would 

 meet his case equally well. 



" Banjo," that shambling and much knocked about 



