HOW TO BUY AND SELL. Ill 



In here naming the case of the stage-coach horse I cer- 

 tainly take an extreme case; besides, this class of horse is 

 degraded from faster to slower work, according to his 

 capabilities at the time, so long as he suits his proprietor's 

 purpose. Many private horses also become greatly 

 reduced in their powers of speed by careless and reckless 

 driving; these latter can, by sufficient rest, coupled with 

 slower driving and more careful usage, be gradually 

 restored. 



Ihus, such horses as may, by rapid, careless, or unu- 

 sually hard work, have been reduced in speed, but still 

 be capable of restoration by care and rest proportionate 

 to their particular class, should be entitled to be war- 

 ranted as ' sound as used horses." 



To many persons such horses would prove serviceable 

 and profitable, and the horses be themselves saved a great 

 deal of future misery; since, were the above facts better 

 known, no inconsiderable number of such horses, requir- 

 ing nothing but a little gentle usage and quiet rest, would 

 be bought for work for which they were adapted, would 

 eventually, and as a general thing, quickly recover, and 

 would thereby escape the drudgery which only too often 

 renders the rest of their lives burdensome and miserable. 



NECK YEIN. 



The irritation, which is sometimes occasioned in the 

 neck vein by the punctures of the fleam or lancet in 

 bleeding, not unfrequently extends to inflammation, 

 which, beginning at the orifice of the puncture, progresses 

 towards the head, and, if not subdued, obliterates the 

 neck vein on that side. While this disease is in progress, 

 from the time of the incision to its thorough determi- 

 nation, the horse is UNSOUND. 



