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I would never buy any horse for ordinary purposes 

 so afflicted, however slight it might be. 



I had a horse subject to something of this kind. 

 Its cause or origin neither I nor any one else ever 

 found out. He would, without showing any 

 symptom of an attack, rush suddenly back in his 

 stall, break his head collar shank, or, if that held, 

 throw himself down in his stall. I then put him 

 in a large loose box ; here he would at times com- 

 mence walking at his best pace round and round 

 for an hour together, looking as wild as a hawk. 

 He never, however, did more than this ; and, sin- 

 gular to say, he was one of the best buggy horses 

 I ever had, and I never knew an instance of his 

 having any thing like an attack either in riding 

 or driving him, not even in the hottest day : 

 however, I sold him, so my reader will allow I 

 give such advice as I should follow when I warn 

 him against selecting a horse subject to such 

 attacks. 



BLEEDING AT THE NOSE. 



This complaint is much more frequent among 

 thorough, or at all events very highly, bred horses 

 than with those of a coarser character. Why it is 

 so, arises principally, no doubt, from the nature of 

 the exertions such horses are put to. It is not, 

 however, Improbable that the fineness of the blood- 



