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long, but. yet well set on, and well carried, it is a mark 

 of goodness ; if they are thick, laved, or lolling, wide 

 set, and unmoving, they are signs of dulncss, and of 

 an evil nature. A lean forehead, swelling outward, 

 the mark or feather in his face set high, with a white 

 star or ratch of an indifferent size, and even placed, 

 or a white snip on the nose or lip, they are all, signs 

 of beauty and goodness ; on the contrary, a fat cloudy 

 or frowning countenance the mark in his face stand- 

 ing low, as under his eyes ; if this star or retch stand 

 awry, and instead of a snip, his nose be raw and un- 

 hairy, or his face generally bald, they are signs of 

 deformity. 



Strangles. — Handle his cheeks or chaps, and if 

 you find the bones lean and thin, the space wide be- 

 tween them, the throttle or windpipe big as you can 

 gripe, and the void pface without knots or kernels, 

 and the jaw so great that the neck seemeth to couch 

 within them, they arc all signs of great wind, cour- 

 age, soundness of head and body ; on the contrary, 

 if the chops are fat and thick, the space between them 

 closed up with gross substance, and the throttle little, 

 they are signs of short wind and much inward foul- 

 ness ; should the void place be full of knots and ker- 

 nels, beware of the strangles or glanders, the former 

 of which may be easily discovered by a swelling be- 

 tween the two nether jaw bones, which discharges a 

 white matter. This disorder usually appears about 

 at three, four, or five years old ; there is no young 

 horse but what is subject to it either perfectly or im- 

 perfectly. If the horse has not been properly cured, 

 he will become languid at work, seem weary without 

 any apparent cause, and at sometimes it will effect 

 the foot, leg, ham, haunch, shoulder, breast or the eye, 

 and may corrupt the pupil of the eye. The cure will 

 be given under the appropriate head. 



MoRFOUNDER is^uothcr disorder to be guarded 

 against in purchasing a horse. It is much like the 

 strangles, and is distinguished by a running at the 

 nose, bnt the swelling under the jaw is less. 



Glanders, also, are discovered by a running at 

 the nose. Feel if he has any flat glands fastened to 

 the nether jaw, which gives him pain when you press 



