26 CONCESSIONS OP A HOESE DEALEB. 



hand, and the over-lip with his left, it is placed in such 

 a position as to cover the nostrils, and the horse cannot 

 help but inhale the irritant therein, which adheres 

 to the tow, and still further irritates the already in- 

 flamed memhrane of the upper air passages, and almost 

 instantly causes the poor afflicted animal to sneeze out 

 the plug; and the man, whoever he may be, will be 

 neglecting an important duty if he does not immediately 

 destroy the horse or place the matter in the hands of 

 the police. 



If the horse be in his own hands, and he be uncer- 

 tain whether the suspicious-looking discharge which, at 

 times, will proceed from catarrh or cold may be glan- 

 ders, he should place a pail of cold water under the 

 horse's nose and let the mucus drop in ; if it sinks it is 

 a cold, if it floats it is a suspicious discharge, and doubt- 

 less will, in the end, prove glanders ; colds should never 

 be neglected, or, in defiance of all treatment afterwards, 

 inflammation of the respiratory passages may follow, 

 and hence glanders. 



The coper who deals in glandered horses is a double- 

 dyed scoundrel of the worst description. I knew one 

 who died a most horrible death, caused by the inocula- 

 tion of his body, through a punctured wound, with the 

 discharge from the deceased horse, conveyed through 

 the medium of his pocket handkerchief, which he had 

 used to wipe the horse's nostrils. It is a criminal of- 

 fence to sell a glandered horse in a fair or market, and 

 whenever the sale of one is effected, the gang vanish as 



