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having occurred to one eye, the other has sympatheti- 

 cally followed suit ; and, on the other side, we should 

 say, on no account breed from a mare affected in either 

 way, unless she be possessed of some excellencies so 

 extraordinary and countervailing, that, for the sake of 

 preserving the stock, one would be willing to run some 

 risk of having a worthless animal for his own use, in 

 the hope of possibly having one free from the dreaded 

 defect and of superlative excellence. 



Previous to sending the mare to the horse, she 

 should be got into the most perfect state of health and 

 condition, by moderate exercise, abundance of good, 

 nutritous food, and warm stabling. It is not desirable 

 that she should be in a pampered state, produced by 

 hot stables or extraordinary clothing ; that she should 

 have the short, fine coat, or the blooming and glowing 

 condition of the skin, for which one would look in a 

 race-horse about to contend for a four-mile heat — not 

 that she should be in that wiry form of sinew and' 

 steel -like hardiness of muscle, which is only the result 

 of training. Still less desirable is it she should be 



