SOUND OR UNSOUND? 



CHAPTER I. 



SOUND OR UNSOUND? — THAT's THE QUESTION. VAGUENESS OF 



THE WORD. FEW HORSES UNEQUIVOCALLY SOUND. UNSOUND- 

 NESS NOT ALWAYS A GROUND FOR REJECTING A HORSE. WAR- 

 RANTY NO PROOF OF SOUNDNESS. — NON-WARRANTY NOT 

 ALWAYS A PROOF OF UNSOUNDNESS ILLUSTRATIONS. 



After, this sketch of the object of the book, 

 and having, I hope, by explaining my motives, 

 offered sufficient apology for bringing it forward, 

 I shall commence by what I conceive to be of the 

 most importance to the general utility of the 

 animal, which is, health and soundness, or their 

 opposites. 



Sound or unsound ? — " that's the question ; " 



and a very proper one to put to any one of 

 whom we intend, or at least contemplate, to pur- 

 chase a horse. If the seller is a dealer — be he 

 respectable or not ; if he is decisively told the horse 

 is to be bought subject to the opinion of some 

 known veterinarian of eminence — the man will not 

 be such an idiot as to warrant an animal sound 

 that has any decided unsoundness about him at 

 that 'particular time (I say particular time for 



