COLD. 87 
All that ignorant people know of glanders is, that the disease is 
accompanied with a nasal defluxion. The more cunning in horse flesh, 
likewise, are aware that glanders 
causes the lymphatic gland within 
the jaw to swell, or that a gland- 
ered horse is always, as such-peo- 
ple assert, jugged. 
Now, both the discharge and 
the enlargement are generally 
present during inveterate cold. HEAD OF A HORSE WITH “A JUG,” OR WITIT 
Animals of this kind are sold to SNREER Ee LYMPHATIC GLANDS OF THE THROAT 
the unwary as sound horses. The 1. The enlarged lymphatic within the jaw. 
vendors believe the quadruped to 
be glandered, or to be affected with the most terrible of equine diseases ; 
and the purchaser wants knowledge to perceive the contrary. 
Let, therefore, no man who buys “a captain,” (which is the slang for 
a horse with nasal discharge,) become alarmed, and to some member of 
the gang from whom it was bought, resell his bargain for a few shillings. 
Large sums are often made by thus disposing of a diseased animal for a 
high price; then, directly afterward, frightening the purchaser with a 
view to buying back at a cheap rate the supposed glandered horse. 
Always take the animal to the nearest veterinary surgeon. Have the 
quadruped examined; and, if really glandered, order it to be immediately 
destroyed. Listen to no offer; but have the order obeyed. 
A gentleman once attending a sale, bought for a large price a fine 
black horse. No sooner had the money been paid, than a man came up 
and informed the purchaser of the real character of his recent acquisi- 
tion, offering to take the bargain off the new owner’s hands for fewer 
shillings than pounds had just been given. The proposal was indig- 
nantly refused. Others came, but all encountered the same answer. 
The terms were gradually heightened, till double the money expended 
was tendered. The horse, however, was destroyed; thus a gang of 
swindlers were deprived of a property which, they owned, had for the last 
year earned them an easy thousand pounds. 
Every man, however, must not anticipate so favorable a proposal. 
The animals mostly are worthless, and would only be rebought for a 
very trifle; the swindlers, generally, being perfectly indifferent whether 
their eyes ever again behold a creature which can be easily replaced. 
