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heard of it as a source of lameness, she would 

 not know, (unless shown its existence on her 

 favourite riding horse,) whether a curb appears 

 on the back-part of the hind leg or the front 

 of the fore one ; her knowledge is simply this — 

 she has been accustomed to use, and see used 

 by her friends fine or pretty animals, thus her 

 eye becomes capable of detecting such as are or 

 are not so ; but we \^dll admit that sympathy 

 for a favourite might induce her to put her 

 hand on that favorite's leg when shown the injury, 

 I can see nothing unfeminine in this, or any 

 thing half as distasteful to the touch in a live 

 horse's leg, as there is in a raw stake cut off a 

 dead bullock ; the probability is her ladyship 

 never touched a raw stake in her existence, the 

 other does these kind of things every day, and 

 as probably if purchasing a very fine bullock's 

 heart, the butcher offers her to feel its weight, 

 saying *'that art is a good height pound if it's a 

 bounce, feel it marm," whether the good lady'& 



