CRlB-BITlNG. 65 



""^Lord Tenterden. Why should you do it then? 

 -—It would preveut him from biting the manger. 

 (A laugh.) 



" John Lythe, a veterinary surgeon examined 

 by Mr. Hutchinson. Have you known horses to 

 have the habit of crib-biting, and yet their gene- 

 ral health not affected by it ? — Many ; in the 

 army particularly. 



" If they have it not in a degree to affect the 

 health of the animal, are they, in your judgment, 

 unsound, because they are crib-biters? — Cer- 

 tainly not. 



" When they have it only in a slight degree is 

 it a vice ? — Not unless it disposes the horse to 

 some bodily mischief. 



" The witness, on cross-examination, stated that 

 the habit arose frequently from want of food, 

 and frequently from irritation ; and he mention- 

 ed an instance of the latter. 



" Is it a desirable thing for a horse to have ? — 

 It is not desirable, certainly ; but I never cast a 

 horse for it. 



'■'-Lord Tenterden^ after Sir James Scarlett had 

 replied to the defendant's evidence, stated, that 

 the question for the jury was, whether the horse 

 Mas unsound, or laboured under a defect which 



