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either weakness of the part, or, to the majority of horsemen, will suggest 

 a previous attack of specific ophthalmia. The disease, however, is not, 

 in the author's opinion, hereditary, but is generated by that closeness of 

 abode and that absence of ventilation to which all grooms strongly 

 incline. The present writer has most frequently beheld ophthalmia in 

 full and in perfect organs. 



A WATCHFUL AND TIMID ETE. AN HONEST ETE. 



A LOW-BRED ETE. 



A DISEASED, OR PICJ-ETE. 



Before quitting the consideration of tbe face, it is imperative that the 

 mouth and nostrils should be alluded to. In the well-bred horse, these 

 are both large, when compared with the same developments in the ani- 

 mal of a coarser origin. The lips should be smooth, soft, compressed, 

 and suggestive of energy ; but they should be without the smallest as- 

 pect of ill temper. About them, numerous isolated and long hairs may 

 be located ; but there should be no accumulation resembling a mustache, or 

 bearing even a distant likeness to a beard. Such growths are commonly 

 removed by the scissors of the groom; but the palm of the hand, if 

 placed against the muzzle, is certain to ascertain the truth if those things 

 ever have been in existence. 



LAROE MODTH AND NOSTRIL 

 OF A WELL-BRED HORSE. 



SMALL MOUTH AND NOSTRIL 

 OP A LOW-BRED HORSE. 



THE MOUTH AND NOSTRIL OF AN OLD, 

 DEJECTED, TIELL-BRED HORSE. 



The lowly-bred animal, being chiefly employed for slow uses, has not 

 the need for those ample draughts of air which the faster speed necessi- 

 tates should be rapidly respired ; nor is the mouth declarative of the 

 same determination which marks the lips of the purer blood. The bit 

 is scarcely ever present upon the carter's harness, nor are the mouths of 

 his charges formed to retain this invention. The characteristics of low 

 birth cannot be effaced from the countenance of a quadruped. Age or 



