126 THE HORSE. 



the reader from my old treatise, in the ancient slang 

 of the stables, not yet become obsolete with some 

 additions : 



Abrupt setting on of the head. Cock- 

 throppled,or crest-reversed, the substance 

 of the neck being placed below. shoulders 

 of insufficient compass, depth and sub- 

 stance, or upright, instead of declining 



TOWARDS THE WAIST, OR GROSS AND HEAVY. LeG- 



giness, or too great length of leg. round 

 and fleshy legs. deficient muscular sub- 

 stance in the thighs and fore-arms, or those 

 too loaded with flesh. glrth too narrow 

 in proportion to the size of the horse. 

 Want of width and substance in the loins, 

 frequently with the appearance of a sink- 

 ing or cavity across the fillets. defici- 

 ency of width, or extension of the hinder 

 quarters; the hinder approaching nearer 

 to each other than the fore feet. want of 

 substance in the leg bones. crookedness in 

 the hocks and pastern joints, or sickle- 

 HAMMED. String halt, or catching up of the 

 hinder legs. going hammer and pincers to- 

 gether, or over-reaching. faulty position 

 of the feet, from crooked pastern joints, 

 the toe being either turned outward or 

 inward. Soft and delicate, white, or party 

 coloured, wrinkled, or broad and flat, 

 or deep ass-like hoofs, with narrow heels, 

 and deficient frogs. dead hair, sadness, 



AND DULL EYES, THE itldkes OF IMPENDING ROT- 



