36 LESSONS IN HORSE JUDGING. 



best is unsightly, but still ^wall' eyes may be 

 quite sound. 



23. — Whilst you are looking at the eyes in broad 

 daylight, notice if the eyelids are all right. Some- 

 times they get torn with projecting nails and are 

 injured to such an extent that they cannot cover 

 and protect the eye. Also notice if the tears run 

 over the cheek. The tears are formed under the 

 upper eyelid, but deep in the orbit or socket of 

 the eye, and wet the surface of the eye and then 

 find their way to the inner corner of the eye and 

 thence through a canal into the nose. It occa- 

 sionally happens that this canal gets blocked up, 

 and then the tears cannot get into the nose and 

 so escape. 



When this is the case, they trickle out of 

 the eye corner and over the face, and scald the 

 hair off. This is often a curable condition, but 

 very objectionable whilst it lasts. You will say 

 ' how is it that we do not find the tears coming 

 out of the nostrils if they escape into the nostrils 

 as they do in the horse and in ourselves.' Well, 

 because in health — except of course when we cry 

 — the tears are only formed in sufficient quantity 

 to keep the eye moist, just as the hning of the 

 nose only forms sufficient watery material to 

 keep it moist and no more. When there is more 

 than suffices for the purpose we are said to have 

 got a *cold.' 



2i. — Having examined the eyes in broad day- 

 light, you will have to examine them luith a can- 

 dle within a stable with the door shut. If you 

 can have a choice, choose a stable that has a win- 



