30 THE HOESE 



as are also grease, saddle-galls, and shivering, so 

 that it is within the power of the sharp buyer to 

 get a considerable reduction in the price of an 

 animal with one of these complaints, on the score 

 that it is not wholly sound. 



It must always be remembered that curbs may 

 be sprung in a moment, splints developed in a 

 few hours, spavin thi^own out in a day or two, 

 and other defects, such as roaring, rapidly de- 

 veloped, so that it is possible to buy an apparently 

 sound horse one day, and find that, through no 

 dishonesty on the part of the vendor, he is un- 

 sound a day or two later. 



