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injury and not have chorea. Obviously if he has 

 heaves he is ^^heavey. '^ If he keeps on swing- 

 ing from side to side in the stall like an ele- 

 phant he is a ** weaver.'' If a horse has been 

 knocked about a bit in shipping he will likely 

 show a '^ car-bruise," but it must be soft and 

 mellow and show to be of recent origin. If a 

 horse has never even seen a harness he is ^^a lit- 

 tle green." It is positively marvelous how 

 diminutive all equine ailments are around the 

 mart. Finally when the horse has passed 

 through the plug, pelter and crowbait stages he 

 becomes '^a poor old skin," and when he either 

 can not go any more or dies he is carted off to 

 the '^refinery" and is there converted into a 

 large variety of articles of commerce ranging 

 from salt beef (for export) and cordova leather 

 to buttons and glue. 



There are also many other terms of much 

 more general significance and acceptation used 

 by horsemen the world over. For instance, a 

 ^^ half-bred" is a horse begotten by a Thorough- 

 bred stallion and may have on his dam's side 

 none of that blood at all or very much of it, but 

 so long as he is not eligible to registration as 

 Thoroughbred he is ^'half-bred." A grade is 

 begotten by a pure-bred horse from a mare of 

 unknown breeding, but this does not apply to 

 the get of the Thoroughbred or standard-bred. 

 A cross-bred is by a pure-bred horse of one 

 breed from a pure-bred mare of another breed. 



