e^ CRIB-BITING. 



in the defendant's stables, for a month before it 

 was sold to the plaintiff, and the manger (a 

 wooden one) was not at all injured by its biting. 



" Cross-examined. It had been since sold to Dr. 

 Halcomb. The price asked was 60 guineas ; 

 but witness did not know what his brother got 

 of Dr. Halcomb for it. 



" Professor Coleman stated, that horses had the 

 habit of crib-biting in very different degrees. 

 He was inclined to think that the true meaning 

 of the word 'vice,' was some vicious quality 

 which was dangerous to the owner of the horse, 

 or to others who rode or drove it, and not merely 

 a defect or fault, because, if that were the case, 

 tripping or shying would be a vice, and few 

 horses were free from some defect or fault. 

 A crib-biter might be a vicious horse, but not 

 necessarily so because he was a crib-biter. 



" Is crib-biting an unsoundness ? 



" That depends on the definition of the word 

 unsoundness. I have always considered wherever 

 there is an alteration of the function in any part, 

 so as to influence the entire functions, and pre- 

 vent the animal from performing the common 

 du ties of a horse, that he is unsound. According 

 to that definition, a crib-biter may or may not 



