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particular. Such instances are, however, very 

 rare indeed. 



There is, however, a very great diiference in 

 the sound emitted by the roarer and the grunter 

 on sudden surprise or exertion, which a practised 

 ear at once detects. The confirmed roarer gives 

 a comparatively long continued hollow roar or 

 pfroan. The orrunter emits that sudden kind of 

 grunt that a man w^ould do if he came suddenly 

 in contact with a post when walking ; in fact, not 

 very dissimilar to the sound emitted by paviors 

 when usin2: their larsre rammers in settlino- the 

 street stones. 



Although I apprise my reader that the mere 

 grunter is not to be set down as a roarer, I in no 

 way recommend his trusting to mere difference 

 of sound in so important a particular. I only 

 wish to prevent his at once refusing one that may 

 be really an acquisition from suspicious indica- 

 tion : try him. If he does not roar or whistle on 

 exertion out of the stable, his grunting on par- 

 ticular occasions when in, is not a matter of 

 serious import ; and he certainly may safely be 

 purchased : the buyer, however, bearing in mind 

 that he is, to a certain degree, possessing himself 

 of a faulty animal, and one that he will find he 

 must always sell at a depreciated price. If he 

 buys him at such, it is only like purchasing a 

 valuable lookinsj mirror with a sli2:ht flaw in it at 



