HOW TO BUY AND SELL. 99 



RUNNING AWAY OR BOLTING. 



Horses addicted to running cuvay are decidedly danger- 

 ous, both for the user and for all that they encounter. 

 This habit is the result of mismanagement, because no 

 horse with a good mouth when well handled can run 

 away. 



The cure is not difficult to effect; but until that is 

 effected, and the mouth restored to its proper condition, 

 the horse is decidedly Vicious. 



When bolting or running away is caused by defective 

 vision, the vice is, properly so called, shymg; although 

 this is often, by misnomer, called bolting, on account of 

 the difficulty experienced in pulling up, owing to the 

 bad mouth. 



A tendency of blood to the head, or any defect in the 

 organs of vision, renders a horse Unsound. 



BITING. 



Biting to any serious extent is induced in the horse by 

 the nervousness or thoughtlessness of its attendants; it 

 is, however, a proof of ill-nature on the part of the horse, 

 and a Vice. 



But that pretty, half vengeful, half playful kind of 

 snapping with the mouth, while the ears are whimsically 

 laid back, and the laughing eyes shine with harmless 

 mischievousness — the peculiarities of horses possessing a 

 strain of Eastern blood — is no more a vice than is the 

 gentle bite of a gambolling puppy. Neither is the habit 

 of throwing out one of the hind legs in a careful manner 

 — a habit peculiar to those horses — to be considered a 

 vice. But ill-treatment and mismanagement will not 

 fail to make such habits at length dangerous. 



