240 LAW SUITS. HEREDITARY ROARERS. [BOOK II. 



Acuities of continuing it, and the cough, the roar- 

 big, wheezing or labouring of the flanks and chest, 

 return as bad as ever. If the work be very hard, 

 as always happens when the horse has been sold 

 deceptiously, and the new master would try its 

 utmost powers, the relapse is then worse than be- 

 fore ; he hereupon becomes a confirmed roarer, by 

 the wind and lymph being driven inside the mem- 

 brane that lines the wind-pipe, and causes titillation 

 of the very fine blood-vessels that traverse it. Hence 

 the number of lawsuits that are instituted to recover 

 the valuable consideration paid for broken-winded 

 horses that are returned upon the hands of the 

 sellers as roarers, that never were known to either 

 groom or stable-boy for roarers, before the day of 

 action or trial. Hence, too, let us charitably sup- 

 pose, the contradictory evidence often given, and 

 the flat, downright cross-swearing that usually takes 

 place on such occasions. For the horse having 

 been partially made up for the purpose of sale, i. e. 

 nursed, patched up, and to all appearance " right 

 in all his parts," the fact of his going in pain comes 

 out by way of his skin at first, and the new purchaser 

 being generally desirous of trying all he can do, 

 the ruin is effected, by pushing him too much, of 

 driving the wind inside the membrane, as before 

 described. 



Hereditary roarers. Early in the present cen- 

 tury, a question arose among breeders, whether 

 the gift or the curse of roaring descended from 

 parents to their progeny. The decision was looked 



