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7th. If you shake your hand near his eyes in sucli 

 a manner that he cannot feel the wind from it, and he 

 pays no attention to it, by winking quick, and moving 

 his ears, liis eyes are such as should not be made 

 choice of. 



8th. If at night, when you approach him with a 

 candle, and the pupil of his eye looks large, of a light 

 blue colour, without having near its middle, and on the 

 upper part, little rough spots, of a dark brown colour, 

 resembling moss, or if the pupil contains large white 

 opaque lumps, the horse is either blind or occasionally 

 subject to blindness, and should be avoided by a 

 purchaser. 



The eyes of some horses are very subject to films, 

 ^vhich have been sometimes removed by large bleed- 

 ngs, or the use of double refined loaf sugar, or glass 

 bottle, powdered. Eyes thus affected are much to be 

 dreaded, as it is very difficult to discover them. One 

 hard ride will make a horse blind; and one large 

 bleeding will remove the film. To detect such eyes, 

 examine minutely the corners, as the film leaves those 

 parts of the eye last, and will appear there, when it 

 has been removed from the middle of the eye for 

 several days. 



The eyes of a horse are never too large, but very 



frequently too small ; and when shaped like a pig's, 



are neither durable nor handsome, and form a serious 



objection. The wall or white eyes are truly valuable, 



being much hardier and less subject to disease than 



eyes of any other description ; for who ever recollects 



to have seen a horse blind, or even with diseased eyes, 



that had wall eyes ? and unquestionably they can see 



better in the night than a horse without them. 

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