^4 THE CHEST AND QUARTERS. 



recently, while little, bald, and somewliat knotty- 

 spots, are as certain signs of the recent use of 

 setons or rowels. It is impossible to say from 

 these appearances, that the horse is unsound : 

 they only show, that he has had, or been treated 

 for, a disease which often makes him so. 



The Haunch hones should be compared with 

 eacli other, to see that they are equally promin- 

 ent : for sometimes a piece is broken off one by 

 accident. The examiner will see this best, by 

 standing a little way directly behind the horse. 

 If but a small piece has been chipped off, and 

 the horse does not seem to suffer from it, he 

 cannot be said to be unsound : and he is only, 

 therefore, objected to for the deformity, which, 

 by the way, is sometimes so trifling, as to exist 

 without the owner of the horse being at all 

 aware of it. There is a mare Avorking in a 

 stage-coach in the neighbourhood of Glasgow 

 just now, which has had so large a piece broken 

 off the haunch bone, as to form a deficiency in 

 the prominence of the belly on that side ; and 

 vet she does her work as well as her companion. 

 But I should think she would be unable to take 

 any thing like a considerable leap. 



