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matic fever. I never heard of such a complication of diseases in a foot. 
A horse with such diseases would suffer a good deal. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Edlin—There is nothing at all the matter 
with the horse. I manipulated the parts well. The horse would 
naturally go tender and point if there were navicular disease. The 
horse went sound down hill. There was nothing which indicated pain 
of any sort, whatever. Could detect ossification by pressure. 
William Thomas Ramming , examined by Mr. Jones—I am a fa rmer 
living at Lacock. I exchanged horses about the 22d March last. 
Defendant took of me the horse in question. I had the horse in my 
custody about a year and a quarter. I bought it of Mr. Belch. During 
the time he was in my possession I always thought him a perfectly 
sound horse. Mr. Ward came to my house before he bought the horse 
of Curtis. I told him 1 thought it was perfectly sound. The horse 
had no disease of the hock. It had no vice. The horse was not called 
a shier. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Edlin—I am not providing funds for this 
action. When returning home one night the horse in question jumped 
round at an umbrella. The horse was not accustomed to shy much, 
but waived about sometimes. It went very well down hill. 1 always 
change horses once a year. I never found the horse put his foot to the 
ground tenderly. 
Re-examined by Mr. Jones—I have been used to horses all my life, 
and l don’t think the horse in question would come under the head of 
shying horses. 
Robert Neale, of Thlnglcy, near Corsham, farmer, examined by Mr. 
Jones—I was at Chippenham market on the 28th of April last, when 
my attention was drawn by Mr Belch to the horse in question, which 
I purchased. The horse has never been lame but on one occasion, 
when it threw a shoe as I was riding him. I returned the horse to be 
reshod, and it has gone sound and upright since. I saw the horse’s 
knee was damaged the morning* after it had happened. I have ridden 
and driven the horse myself. I drove him a journey of nineteen miles 
shortly after I had him. The horse is rather raw in his way, but since 
it has been in my possession it has shown no symptoms of vice. The 
horse has shied once or twice; on one occasion at some water in the 
road, but it is not in the habit of shying. 1 should not term him a bad 
shier. Consider him free from the vice of shying generally. In my 
experience 1 find horses all more or less shy. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Edlin—The horse never shied viciously. It 
went rather raw, as if badly handled. The horse is continually at work. 
I attribute his shying in the road to a “ puddle.” 
William Caudle, of Chippenham, was merely called by Mr. Jones to 
prove that he had been used to horses a good deal, and that the horse 
in question did not go lame on the occasion of being sold in the Chip¬ 
penham market, on the 28th of April last. 
Abraham Bethell, carpenter, of Nettleton, examined by Mr. Jones— 
I know a man named Thomas Holborow, who was in plain tiff’s service. 
I saw Holborow take the horse out in the month of April last. He 
drove it just as fast as it could go. I saw him gallop it on the road 
two or three times. The roads are not very bad nor very good. 
Cross-examined by Mr. Edlin—A queer place this. Had not been 
anywhere else in Malmesbury except to have a glass or two of beer. 
Mv “ missis” keeps a beerhouse, and I suppose I am one of my wife’s 
best customers. 
Henri/ Hassell, examined by Mr. Jones—I am assistant to defendant. 
Was a horse-dealer myself till about twelve months ago. I know Mr. 
Neale; went to his house last Wednesday. Defendant was with me. 
