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slight a blemish, and in a harness horse, would 

 have been Hberal. I told him my suspicions, 

 and he answered, with a very knowing look, 

 that he was blemished in both eyes, but would 

 probably retain his sight during the season, and 

 then would fetch my money for a leader in the 

 mail. I inspected his eyes, but in vain : the Httle 

 jockey tried again and again to make me under- 

 stand the cloudy aspect of them — " all like a blue 

 haze, Sir." I modestly set it down to my own 

 ignorance, and was well satisfied to take my 

 chance. The horse had his faults, sure enough : 

 but blindness was never one of them; his heels 

 were flat, tender, and contracted, and I was events 

 ually obliged to put him for a time in a farrier's 

 hands, when I took the opportunity of inquiring if 

 his eyes were good ; they were perfectly so ; not 

 the least trace of speck or cloud. I drove him for 

 nearly twelve months, and he never appeared to 

 have his sight at all affected, or any other fault 

 except the tenderness of his heels. The jockey 

 was right, however, in his speculation: I re-sold 

 him at a profit. 



I have omitted one essential difference between 

 the human and equine eye. The pupil in the 

 former is circular ; in the latter an oval with the 

 sides depressed, and the upper ridge of the oval is 



