962 WATER FARCY. 
sions and in every stage of development, crowd upon every part. These 
readily account for that disinclination to move which characterized the 
latter days of existence. 
There is one test for melanosis which does not invariably meet with 
a response, but which, when successful, seldom deceives. This is a pim- 
ple near to the root of the dock; it is very 
rarely of magnitude ; there may only be one or 
there may be several, and the largest may not 
exceed the dimensions of half a pea. When, 
however, such an indication can be detected 
upon a gray horse which is turning white, the 
evidence is almost conclusive. The author does 
not know an instance, where it has suggested 
the presence of melanosis, that the post-mortem 
MparsmeNce OF MeLANosis.. examination has contradicted the indication. 
With regard to the ultimate termination of 
this disorder, the author has no experience. Horses thus affected are 
always slaughtered when the second stage interferes with their utility ; 
but, judging from the similarity of the disease in man and in the animal, 
it is conjectured the last stage in each would be alike. 
WATER FARCY. 
Water farcy, like so many equine disorders, is the offspring of weak- 
ness. Man,-having a servant willing to work and incapable of complain- 
ing, too often proportions the toil only to the master’s desire or the 
master’s convenience. Many horses—which perform slow labor—are in 
harness eighteen hours out of the four and twenty; their rest is while 
the carter drinks, eats, and sleeps. No, not even can they enjoy such 
brief respite as is afforded by avarice to the laboring fellow-being; often 
is one of the drivers seen soundly sleeping on the top of the load which 
the stiff and jaded animals are compelled to draw. Thus the horse’s 
toil is almost constant ; wagoners are well aware that many horses sleep 
while in the shafts or in the chains. Overcome by fatigue, the animals 
doze, but continue to walk and to pull the burden onward. Who, know- 
ing such a fact, can wonder that a living frame thus abused should often 
bow beneath its yoke, and, through death, set torture at defiance ? 
Water farcy is a warning which nature gives to human selfishness; 
it is, when rightly viewed, an intimation that, if the owner does not use 
the life intrusted to him more gently, the common parent will speedily 
take the sufferer to its rest. The complaint proceeds from debility ; 
should the cause of exhaustion be continued, the affection soon changes 
