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wind, but all crib-biters did not distend their 

 bodies with wind in the same degree. It could 

 not be considered as a vice, inasmuch as crib- 

 biters were generally perfectly tractable to ride 

 or drive, and they did no danger to their owners. 



"George Gosden stated, that he had been a 

 veterinary surgeon for sixteen or seventeen 

 years. Had known the habit of crib-biting to 

 exist in various degrees. 



*' The Attorney General. Is it necessarily a vice 

 or an unsoundness ? 



'' Witness. Neither. 



" Have you known horses to have that habit in 

 a considerable degree, and yet to be extremely 

 healthy for a number of years, and be capable 

 of doing their work ? — I have. I have known 

 the best of horses to be crib-biters. 



" Do you know that the horse called ' The 

 Colonel,' had the habit of crib-biting? — I have 

 heard he had it for a number of years. 



" Sir J. Scarlett. Does your experience agree 

 with that of Mr. Coleman, that it very rarely 

 arises from imitation ; or with Mr. Turner, that 

 it generally does ? — That it generally does. 



" As in your opinion, it is neither a vice nor an 



