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Horse Warranty. 



A Plain and Comprehensive Guide to the various Points to be noted, 

 showing which are Essential and which are Unimportant. With 

 Forms of Warranty. By Peter Howden, V.S. 



An idea of the scope of this book will best be conveyed by reproducing a portion 

 of the Index to it, in which we find mention of Abrasions ; Age ; Aged Horses ; Ar- 

 tificial contraction ; Asthma ; Back, croker — chinked — cradle— high — hollow — low — 

 roach — saddle; Bald places; Bandages; Bar-shoes; Bastard strangles, or vives; 

 Bearing rein ; Bent before ; Biting ; Bleeding ; Blemishes ; Blindness, total ; Blood 

 spavin; Bolting— running away ; Boots; Broken back ; Canker; Capped hocks ; 

 Chinked back ; Clambering ; Clinking— shovel and tongs— poker and tongs ; Coat- 

 staring ; CoeK-throttled ; Colds; Collar-wrung; Contraction, artificial"; Corns; 

 Cough ; Cough, chronic ; Courage ; Cradle-back ; Crib-biting, Prevention of; Curbs .- 

 Cutting; Daisy-cutting; Dealers— horses ; Diet and exercise; Dishing; Dropping 

 before; Dropping behind; Dulness ; Eating beds; Enlarsements, soft; Examina- 

 tion; Exchange — swap; Exercise and diet ; Eyes, the— wall — white of ; False quar- 

 ter; Feet, contracted — contraction of the — fever in the ; Firing; Fleshy heel ; Foot, 

 flat — perfect; Galls; Glanders; Grease; Groggy; Grunting; Hackneys; Harness, 

 quiet in ; Hard mouth ; Heel, fleshy ; Heals, "cracked ; Height and age ; Herring- 

 gutted; High-back; Hip, low; Hips, high ; Hocks, Capped ; Hollow-back ; Hoois. 

 open; Horse, the sound — aged — dealers' — used — trial of; Hot water; Humours; 

 Hunters ; Jibbing; Joints, enlarged — other diseases of; Knees, the; Knees, broken ; 

 Swollen; Knuckling; Lame; Lameness; Cunning; Lampas ; Large barrel; Leather 

 soles; Legs, swollen; Loins, narrow; Long pasterns; Long waist: Low action, or 

 daisy-cutting, or going near the ground; Low-back; Low-hip; Malformation; Me- 

 dicine ; Mouth, the ; Narrow loins ; Neck, vein ; Nervousness ; Open hoofs ,• Over- 

 reaching; Paralysis; Pasterns, long; Pigeon toed; Play — Playfulness; Poker and 

 Tongs; Price; Pumice-sole; Quiet in harness; Kat-tail ; Rearing; Receipts on 

 warranty; Rheumatism; Ring-bones; Roach-back; Roarings; Rumbling; Run- 

 ning-away—bolting; Saddle-back, Crad!e-back, Hollow-back, Low-back"; Sand- 

 Tack; Scars; Shoulders, upright; Shovel and Tongs; Shying; Sinews; Sltit- 

 kishness ; Soft enlargements ; Spavin, blood ; Bog; Spavins; Speedy-cry; Splents ; 

 Staring-coat; Starting; Stiff hocks; Stopping; Strangles; String halt ; Stumbling; 

 Surfeit; Swap; Thorough pins; Thrushes; Trial, the ; Tucked up ; Turning; Un- 

 nerving; Upright joints— knuckling; Upright shoulders; Used Horses; Trial of; 

 Vein, neck : Vices ; Vives ; Waist, long ; Wall-eyes ; Warranties, receipts on ; 

 Warranty; Warranty, use of ; Washey ; Water; Water, hot; Weaving; Weaving, 

 cure of; Wens; Wheezing; Whistling; White of Eyes ; Wide behind ; Wind, 

 broken; Wind-sucking ; Windgalls; Work; Wounds; Yonr>c Horses. 



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Graceful Riding. 



A Pocket Manual for Equestrians. By S. C. Waite. 



" In the school, on the road, on the course, or across country, this little book 

 will be invaluable ; and we heartily recommend it." — Mornii:g Post. 



" Contains avast number of useful directions and hints to all who wish to acquire 

 a sure and graceful seat and sure hand. The engravings are well executed and assUt 

 the reader in understanding the letter-press." — Field. 



"Designed to give the timid and nervous of both sexes instructions on the ma- 

 nagement of saddle horses and the proper mode of mounting and dismounting, 

 holding the reins, and such other advice as will be of great service to lady equestrians." 

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"Advice to ladies forms a separate and important part of Mr. Waite's manual, 

 and is marked by a very great degree of good sense." — Daily News. 



