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seen, not on account of there being more of it 

 than usual, but on account of the eyehds being 

 wider apart. This condition is known to doctors 

 as the insane eye, and is seen by the least observ- 

 ant by attending Divine worship in any lunatic 

 asylum chapel and sitting near the parson. This 

 condition has been so connected with viciousness 

 in the horse, that in Yorkshire it is a common 

 expression among horsemen, ''He shows too 

 much of the white of his eye for my money." I 

 would, however, guard you against condemning 

 all horses with this form of eye as vicious, but 

 have a special warranty against vice in purchas- 

 ing one, and at all times avoid such when you 

 conveniently can. 



38. — The space between the lower jaws near 

 the top of the neck cannot be too wide, for 

 reasons we have before seen. There is also 

 another reason why the branches of the lower 

 jaw should be wide apart. The top of the wind- 

 pipe ends in the speaking box called the 'larynx.' 

 It is much larger than the remainder of the 

 windpipe, and in men can be seen and felt as a 

 large hard prominence which moves up and 

 down when we swallow. It is also called 

 pomnm Adami, or Adam's apple. When the 

 nose is held in towards the neck by the bearing- 

 rein being over tight, this deUcate box, which is 

 made up of pieces of hard cartilage, moved by 

 numerous deUcate muscles, gets pressed out of 

 shape and causes roaring, or grunting, or trum- 

 peting. 



This box is quite between the branches of the 



