38 avery's own farrier. 



after which time it was to be broken and trained for the 

 saddle or harness, when it was estimated at one hundred 

 and twenty pence. 



In those days the purchaser was allowed time to as- 

 certain whether the horse was free from three diseases, 

 viz: He had three days to prove him for the staggers; 

 three months to prove the soundness of his lungs, and 

 one year to ascertain whether he was infected with the 

 glanders. And for every blemish discovered after the 

 purchase, one-third of the money w^as to be refunded, 

 unless it proved to be a blemish of the ears or tail. — E?i- 

 cyclopedia. 



In the time of Henry VIII, an English treatise on 

 the management of the horse was written by Sir A. 

 Fitzherbert, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, which 

 was the first of the kind ever written. The learned judge 

 wrote thus: " Thou grasyer, thou may est fortune to be 

 myne opinion or condytion to love horses, and young 

 coltes and foles and go among these; take heed that thou 

 be not beguyled as I have been an hundred tymes or 

 more. And first, ihou shalt know that a good horse has 

 54 properties, viz: 2 of a man, 2 of a badger, 4 of a 

 lion, 9 of an ox, 9 of a hare, 9 of a fox, 9 of an ass, 

 and 10 of a woman." 



Later writers, in pirating from Sir A., have given the 

 following description of the horse, which is well known 

 to approximate the truth, viz: "A good horse should have 

 three qualities of a woman; a broad breast, round hips 

 and a long mane — three of a lion; countenance, courage 

 and fire — three of a bullock; the eye, nostrils and joints — 

 three of a sheep; the nose, gentleness and patience — three 



