ROARING. 109 
firmed. All are soft, especially a substance naturally semi-elastic. The 
bearing-rein forces the head upon the neck; the larynx thereby is com- 
pressed. It assumes strange forms, when it is forced from its natural 
position. As maturity arrives, the various 
structures harden. Then distortion of the 
larynx becomes fixed. This organ has been 
taken from the bodies of old animals, of the 
shape here depicted. The morbid specimen, 
from which the following was copied, is, un- 
fortunately, too common, as the late Professor 
Sewell clearly demonstrated. But, what a 
price is this to pay for fashion—to sit for 
hours behind a noble creature, whose exer- 
tions are adding to our pleasure, and at the 
same time to be entailing deformity upon the 
animal! Physical soundness is of far more 14. sascna anp IARYNE Dre 
importance to the horse than to the human = TeRTED TRouGH THe constant 
being. The value of the quadruped, its man- 
ner of life, its kind of treatment, the sufficiency of its food, and the com- 
parative comfort of its lodging,—all are regulated by the soundness of 
its body. 
There are those who assert roaring is no injury to the powers of a 
horse. Certain animals, to be sure, can hunt and keep a good pace, 
although thus afflicted; but Nimrod (as the well-known, late sporting 
writer called himself) soon found out to his cost that all roarers were 
not fit to ride across country. The writer has seen a sailor, deprived of 
one leg, dance a hornpipe with wonderful agility; but it would be folly, 
therefore, to say sailors were not injured as dancers by the loss of a 
limb. That which impedes the free passage of air to the lungs must be 
a rather serious detriment to exertion. The 
cab proprietors of London, who cannot 
afford to purchase very sound animals, and 
then to let them out at so much per day to 
strange drivers, have discovered a way to 
prevent the noise generally made by roarers. 
This end is attained by placing a pad under 
a portion of the harness. In the following 
engraving this pad is indicated by a white 
mark; though in reality it is so GONOTEL AS: one cn cienawepees ama pnianey 
to blend with the coat of the horse. It a 
presses upon the nostrils near to their openings, and by thus limiting 
the extent of their expansion, by controlling the space through which 
