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ment could only be persuaded to buy up all sucli dis- 

 figured parents, and pistol them, to preserve the pub- 

 lic from being plagued with their perfidious produce, 

 I could promise them plates of golden pippins. 



Second Plate. This is strong seasoning for "the 

 season," but some horses do carry them, and some 

 riders do swallow them. Well, what are wind-galls ? 

 Well, what is a bottle nose ? Why a cruel ugly eye- 

 sore. Wind-galls then are when the oleaginous fluid 

 in the little mucous bags becomes inspissated and 

 thickened to the consistence of gum, hence the fet- 

 locks look gummy. When further diseased by over- 

 work, assisted by hereditary predisposition, they be- 

 come harder yet, like glue. At last, having en- 

 tirely ceased to be oleaginous, they are turned to the 

 cart for having turned cartilaginous. 



And what are crooked legs ? Legs that are not 

 straight, and which you had better leave in the hands 

 of the trainers who crooked them. The effects from 

 sympathy are so great in respect to legs, that two 

 solid straight-legged arm-chairs belonging to Count 

 Garniture were, from their proximity to his racing 

 stock, found gradually bending to the Louis Quinze 

 fashion ; and though the cows' legs in the field resisted 

 it, their eyes were always found squinting askance 

 whenever they came within sight of them. 



