Part I. PerfeSi Farrier. 6$ 



Light-bellied Horfes, altho' they may eat their 

 Oats heartily, yet for the moft part do not eat 

 much Hay, nor confequently drink luftily, whereby 

 they cannot travel fo well, becaufe with Oats alone 

 they are too much over-heated, when a Man is oblige 

 ed to give a great quantity of them, that fo they 

 may fupply the want of Hay. 



You may be eafily deceived, if you conclude that 

 a Horfe has a good Appetite, becaufe he is fat and 

 lufty, and carries a good Belly } for he may have 

 been pamper'd for fome time, and yet may difguft 

 and lofe his Appetite by the lead Fatigue. 



Some Horfes, as they eat their Oats, take their 

 Heads out of the Manger, and yet eat all up \ thole 

 Horfes may have a good Appetite, but lofe a great 

 deal of their Oats •, whereas he fhould not flir his 

 Nofe from among them until they are all eat up. 

 But (if his Oats are frefh and no ways mufty) and 

 he forfake them and fall to eating his Hay, you may 

 conclude that he hath no good Appetite. 



Take notice while he is eating his Oats if he be 

 not fubjedt to the Ticl, which is a prefling the edge 

 of the Manger with his upper Teeth, and giving a 

 kind of Belch through his Throat, whereby he lofes 

 part of his Oats. 



Laftly, When you are buying a Horfe, take care 

 not to fall in love with him, for when this Paflion 

 hath once feized you, you are no longer in a condi- 

 tion to judge of his Imperfe&ions. 



CHA'P, 



