i^o Tt?e Expert Farmer, Chap. lo. 



whilfl he is hot and moll ridden and ti"avelled, and moft at his 

 firft fetting forth, whilfl he is cold j and thus much for lame. 

 Refs and halting before. 



Now you perceiving your horfe to halt, and that you be af- . 

 fared that his lamenefs is not before, then may you be confi- 

 dent it mull be behind, which being fo, the grief mull of ne- 

 ceility be either in the foot, or in the nether joynt, in the pa- 

 llern, orinthelegg, inthe hamm, or in the hough, in the 

 fti fling place, or joynt, or in the hip. If the grief be either 

 inthe leg, pallern or foot, if you do obferve him well, you 

 Ihall underlland it by the very fame ligns rwhichi have incul- 

 cated already in the legs, pallern, or feet, for that the figns 

 be the very fame ^ if it be in the bending of the hamm, you 

 may then ealily know it to be a plain Selander. If it be inthe 

 hough, then it is either a bone or blood-Spa ven, which is ea- 

 iily enough to be difcerned,, or elfe it mull come of fome blow, 

 wrench, or llrain, neither then will the fwelling eafily appear, 

 but you Ihall perceive it either by the ftifnefs of the joynt, 

 or elfe you Ihall find the place to be hot and burning^if the pain 

 fhall lye in the llifling place, it is manifeilly difcovered by 

 his gate, for then you may perceive him in his going,to call 

 the flifle joynt outward, and you may plainly fee the bone on 

 the infide to be bigger then the other,belides,his toe will hard- 

 ly touch the ground. If it be in the hip, which is upon the 

 lide of the buttock, and if the hurt or wrench be newly tak- 

 en, you fhall eafily know it, in that the Horfe will go fide- 

 long like a Crab, not being able fo v/ell to follow with the 

 grieved leg as he can do with the other. Notwithflanding if 

 it be a hurt taken long before , you fhall perceive the Hip 

 to be fain lower then the other, and the flelh toflirink,you may 

 alfb perceive it the better, as by going up a Ml, or upon 

 yielding ground, by reafbn he cannot go with fo great eafe,. 

 as when he goeth upon even or plain ground. But the better 

 to difcover in what part behind the grief lyeth, let his Keep-^ 

 er take him out of the Stable in a long rein or coiler-halter, 

 and let him run him in his hand the full length of the^rein, for 

 that in v/hich leg foever the grief is, you fnall perceive him to 

 favour it, but if you find him to go upright, without favour- 

 ing any leg, then kt your man take his back, and ride him out, 



