HOW TO BUY AND SELL. 77 



play, or whatever trick tends to the injury of themselves 

 or others, is a VICE. 



In the first or most serious class of vices may be 

 enumerated kicking and biting in or out of the stable; 

 kicking at the leg of the rider or driver, either when 

 mounting into the saddle or at any other time; or rearing, 

 or running away, or rubbing the rider's leg against 

 anything, or lying down when wanted to proceed, 

 or falling on the side, or stopping suddenly when in a 

 fast pace, or violently insisting upon going to any place 

 that the horse happens to have been at before. Jibbing, 

 or refusing to proceed, is a vice: so is backing 

 against the owner's will, or turning round with violence 

 when not required so to do, unless this results from mis- 

 management of the user. A refusal to stand still in order 

 to be mounted, if from ill nature, may be classed under 

 this head. Bucking or raising the back when mounted, 

 and then putting the head between the fore-legs and jump- 

 ing, is a disagreeable and dangerous vice; so is the trick 

 of swelling out the body till either the girths or straps to 

 which they are buckled give way. If horses are guilty of 

 any of the vices here enumerated and have been sold as 

 well-broken horses, warranted free from vice, they are 

 returnable. The half-broken colt may be guilty of some 

 of these habits without being vicious; but thenceforth 

 it depends upon the way of procedure. 



This being merely a catalogue of vices, some of them 

 will be more particularly described under their respective 

 headings, together with their causes, effects, and reme- 

 dies, in order that buyers may know where certain vices 

 are barred, or whether they amount to a reason for the 

 total rejection of the horse or not. 



Should you, however, put a horse into harness without 

 having a guarantee that he is quiet to drive, and he then 

 proves guilty of one or more of the active vices, you 

 cannot return him. 



