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should consider well wliat lio docs. In more tlian 

 ono case, ■\vliicli has oonio under the observation of 

 the writer, a young horse has been sold sound, 

 that is, with no cough or cold out, and taken to 

 the home of his new master ; when there, strangles 

 have come on, which would have been easily got 

 over had the animal been properly nursed and 

 fairly treated ; but, owing to the disputes usually 

 arising out of such a cii'cumstauce, the horse has 

 been neglected, and that which would have been 

 the means of relieving the animal's system, and 

 perhaps cming it of incipient blindness, has, un- 

 happily, by neglect, turned into chronic cough or 

 indigestion, and perhaps total blindness. No per- 

 sons know better than farmers, of the class who 

 compose juries, the symptoms of strangles, and 

 they are not disposed to lean towards anyone who 

 loses a young horse in this complaint, and who 

 sticks too closely to a warranty under such a state 

 of circumstances. Still, just as has been said of a 

 temporary cough, so it must bo said of strangles — 

 they are both unsoundness, only a complainant 

 should be cautious in dealing wdth a case of 

 warranty where the alleged breach is certainly 

 strangles. 



Blindness. — All affections of the eyes, which Blindness, 

 detract from then- normal state and make a horse 

 more or less blind, are unsoundness. 



