DONE BROWN. 63 



Many of my readers who are inexperienced in horse- 

 flesh, may not know how a horse is made to cough, or 

 if they have seen dealers or others practise this part of 

 an examination, and hear the cough, they may not he 

 ahle to tell whether the horse be sound in his wind or 

 not, by the sound produced. 



First, then, I shall say to my readers, when you are 

 suspicious about a horse's wind, place your left hand 

 gently on the ridge of the horse's neck, so as not to 

 alarm him, and with the finger and thumb of your right 

 hand pinch his windpipe firmly, about five or six inches 

 from his jaw ; hold on firmly, and he will cough in the 

 course of a few seconds. Now mark the sound of the 

 cough ; if it be a long whistling kind of sound the horse's 

 wind is right, but if it be a short, dry sound, something 

 similar to the cough of a human being in a consumption, 

 the horse's wind is affected. If a broken- winded horse 

 be suffering from a cold, he will be all but continually 

 coughing; and a practised ear can always tell when 

 he hears the hard, dry-laboured hackle of such a one 

 that he is broken- winded, or, in horse-dealing phraseo- 

 logy, a u wid." 



To return to my coping repository I remember an 

 instance of " done brown," which occured atone of these 

 places in the north of England ; and, although very dis- 

 creditable to the proprietors, was brought about by the 

 victim himself; he was a gentleman of independent 

 means, but of very drunken habits, and resided in the 

 immediate vicinity of the repository. It was his regu- 



