ABC OF THE HORSE 47 



as it is known in stable parlance, is 

 standing with the lame leg flexed. 

 Horses with slight lameness will 

 frequently point, or when they have 

 incipient trouble with the feet or legs, 

 the first indication is a flexing of the 

 afflicted limb. Such stable vices as crib- 

 biting, weaving, wind sucking, shiver- 

 ing, scraping, and resting one hind foot 

 upon the other are most easily dis- 

 cerned when the animal is standing 

 perfectly quiet. It is as well, perhaps, 

 whilst the horse is in the stable, and its 

 feet are clean, to go up alongside of it 

 and examine them. See that the frog 

 of each foot is perfectly clean and sound, 



