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not seriously suffer ; but as for our share of the nuisance , it has 
always existed, and will exist, and we must endure it. Farriers 
will tipple, and now and then cheat, and we must bear it as 
well as w e can ; and the grand cause of the tippling and other 
provoting behaviour is, the ease with which these men get 
employment. 
We w ould join Mr. Charles Clark in advising our brethren, 
for their own sakes, and for the sakes of their patients and em¬ 
ployers, to exercise a little more care in hiring the shoeing-smith. 
If they only who could obtain a good character, and that of 
some standing, for sobriety and steadiness, were employed, our 
men would be more to be depended upon, and we should be 
more comfortable. There is no need, however, of any public 
meeting about it: the evil is easily remedied, by our determina¬ 
tion to do that which reason and interest prompt us to do with 
regard to all our other servants. 
VtUxvmtVi jHeiriral §uxi$$x\iOtntt. 
CRIB-BITING UNSOUNDNESS. 
PAUL, ESQ. V . HARDWICK. 
This was an action on the warranty of a horse sold by the de¬ 
fendant, a horse-dealer in Tottenham-court-road, to the plaintiff*, 
Mr. Paul, the banker, in July last. 
The warranty was contained in the receipt given by the de¬ 
fendant for the price of the horse, and was in these terms:— 
“ Received of J. B. Paul, Esq., the sum of sixty-five pounds, for 
a bay gelding, warranted sound, and free from vice.” The 
alleged unsoundness or vice was, that the horse was a crib-biter. 
Sir James Scarlett , in opening the case for the plaintiff, read 
an extract from Dr. Rees’s Cyclopaedia , in which crib-biting was 
described as a vice, and the writer, distinguishing vice from un- 
soundness, gave it as his opinion, on the effect of a warranty, that 
if it extended to soundness only, the horse was not returnable 
for crib-biting; but if it included a warranty against vice, it was; 
crib-biting being, it w 7 as said, “ one of the worst vices.” 
Philip Hearn , who had had the care of the horse after the 
