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There are other people who, with only an 

 occasional horse or two they want to get rid of, 

 invariably talk much in the same strain. First it is 

 perhaps denied that the animal has windgalls, or that 

 his feet are in any wise contracted, though im- 

 mediately he is brought out, not only do peas appear 

 to surround his ankles, but some large beans to be also 

 deposited there ; and the heels of the feet so squeezed 

 in that a man with any feeling would be in danger of a 

 stomach-ache from merely inspecting them. It is a 

 fortunate circumstance that all those who are so 

 stupid as to purchase horses with such crippled 

 looking feet as these will have to suffer severely in 

 pocket until they find somebody more stupid than 

 themselves, and no pity on them. But the most 

 common denials one now meets with, are where the 

 animal stands only a little over, is very little 

 buck-kneed, the leg at times slightly tremulous, not 

 evincing much disposition to kneel, but still with the 

 legs from the knee downwards out of the proper line. 

 These are invariably first declared to be straight as an 

 arrow ; and, secondly, " Well, if they are not so, that 

 is only surer proof of his being thorough-bred. All 

 thorough-breds are like that." There is some truth 

 in the last part of this answer certainly, but that will 

 not make the legs straight nevertheless. I say then, 



