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and its remedy. Such lameness is not, like failing 

 of the sinews, likely to be permanent, or end in 

 helplessness. On the contrary, with care there 

 is no such danger; but every prospect of that care 

 being recompensed by the comparative or total 

 soundness of the horse, or, to say the least, his 

 freedom from lameness. 



Corns to a hunter or harness horse, are of 

 much less consequence than to the hack. The 

 first mostly goes on soft ground ; the latter hav- 

 ino; no weiorht on his back, his corns sustain 

 only the pressure of his own, and many such 

 horses work quite sound that would become lame 

 as road hacks. In purchasing, therefore, a horse 

 with corns, be they of a better or worse descrip- 

 tion, it will be found that they will affect the 

 animal more or less in accordance with the pur- 

 pose he is wanted for ; and this, quite as much as 

 any other circumstance, must decide his being 

 likely to answer the purchaser's purpose. 



CURBS. 



When mentioning imperfections and ailments 

 of the hocks, I should have alluded to curbs, but 

 they bear so close an affinity to windgalls, that, 

 when on the subject of thorough pins, I was led 

 back to the fore legs. I must now beg leave to 

 return to the hind ones. 



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