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AS TO SOUNDNESS. 123 
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oi lawsuit.’ Here is a drawing of a hock, having upon it a 
" spavin that, until treated, will always lame a horse. If 
_ there be an absence of this neat little enlargement which 
i “you can feel with the tips of your index and middle 
fingers (using-none other), and the horse goes sound, the 
. less you say about his being spavined the better. By all 
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Fic. 8. 
means compare the /ee/ of this locality with the same. 
locality on the opposite hock, but mind you do it with 
‘the same parts of the same hand. Do not go behind the 
. horse and make a pretence of placing hands on the 
spavin place of each hock and comparing them simul- — 
‘taneously ; because, let me tell you, no one can do this. 
