54< FOUNDER. GROGGY. [BOOK I. 



barely showing itself between the frog and the toe, 

 if any where. If a horse receives the impulse to 

 proceed from the right hand or heel, he will step 

 out with the fore leg of that side, accompanied by 

 the hind leg of the near side ; but his rider, or 

 driver, should early teach him to change the leading- 

 leg, by sometimes touching him up on the contrary 

 side. It is worthy of note, too, that the horse 

 which executes this change with the least trouble, 

 and oftenest, has most power and command of his 

 limbs. [See Index — Fever in the feet and Strains.] 

 When both legs before are attacked, the horse ex- 

 hibits a crippling uncertain gait, not unlike that of 

 a drunken man, whence the term "groggy" has 

 been applied (in Yorkshire pronounced " graw-gy"); 

 and, if he is not timely indulged in rest and a run 

 at grass, he is a ruined horse, and becomes soon 

 what is termed " foundered," of which disorder there 

 are several kinds. The mistaking one kind of 

 founder for another generally costs the animal his 

 life, sooner or later, and the studious inquirer had 

 better turn to the next Chapter (at sect. 21, para- 

 graph 3,) where he will find a few words on chest 

 founder, many of the symptoms whereof are not 

 unlike this of the feet, and proceed from the like 

 causes. 



Horses full of feed, and requiring purgative 

 physic, stand with the legs stretched, more than 

 our second cut at page 30, — inordinately at times. 

 Old Gibson attributed it to vice, and a disposi- 

 tion to kick, when a horse holds his toe scarcely 



