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round : go to every gentleman who has a horse for 

 sale, and to every dealer : go to every palace from the 

 King of Diamonds down to the Knave of Spades ; and 

 at the end of the twelve months how many, which 

 have reached the age of five years, will you have 

 found, having good carriage both before and behind, 

 and with straight unblemished forelegs and wide frogs ? 

 Not five per cent certainly. Why is this, because 

 they have been overworked ? Yes, they have been 

 worked too much for their legs no doubt ; but the fact 

 is, their legs will stand very little work before their 

 ancles become somewhat gummy and adorned with 

 little soufflets like marrowfat peas, simijly because the 

 sire or dam had these uusighthj defects ; and it is very 

 little use stopping two-year-old, or three-year-old, or 

 four-year-old, or five-year -old races, so long as horses 

 are run till their legs are crooked, or windgalled, and 

 their feet contracted, and are then, and not till then, 

 used as stallions or b]*ood mares. Ugly heads, 

 drooping quarters, buck knees and crooked legs, 

 splents, curbs, windgalls, &c. will descend as surely 

 in the horse, as ugly physiognomies, bottle noses, 

 bowed legs, splay feet, coarse skins, &c. will in the 

 human being : in short in fish, flesh, and fowl, all 

 the world over, Like will beget Like, always in a 

 greater or less degree ; therefore so long as stallions 



