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we require without distress, how far a diminution 

 of price will, in the purchaser's estimation, be an 

 equivalent to the unpleasantness of the noise ; and 

 this must, of course, depend, be the noise little 

 or much, on the turn of mind, or rather opinion, 

 of the person purchasing ; and is a point on which 

 he alone can decide. If I have entered some- 

 what further than I at first intended on the nature 

 of the disease, or peculiarity, it Is the better to 

 enable the purchaser to make his choice between 

 selecting or rejecting a horse so circumstanced. 



There Is a modified kind of roaring that is 

 very likely to mislead an inexperienced purchaser. 

 This Is termed grunting : not that horses keep up 

 a continued grunt as the others do a roar, a 

 wheese, or whistle, but only give a specimen of 

 their habit (for it can scarcely be called com- 

 plaint) when struck, turned round quickly in their 

 stall, or on making some sudden exertion. I have 

 known horses who would grunt on taking a leap, 

 but on no other occasions ; it therefore by no 

 means follows that an animal making such a sound, 

 or grunt, should be set down as a roarer, and re- 

 jected as such ; for though most roarers will give 

 forth a sudden emission of sound of some sort on 

 sudden exertion, every horse doing so is not a 

 roarer ; and I have known instances where abso- 

 lute roarers could not, without great difficulty^ be 

 forced to make any grunt on being tried in this 



