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A. Lombard, I think his name was. 
Q. Where did he live ? 
A. I think in Westbrook. 
Q. Any other disease about the horse excepting that? 
A. There might have been. 
Q. You say whistling takes place only when there is some 
disease of the upper part of the throat ? 
A. I say it is in the windpipe. 
Q. How far down does the windpipe extend in a horse’s neck ? 
A. It extends, if I understand it, to the lungs. 
Q. Then it may be a difficulty existing anywhere from the 
glottis down to where the air passages separate ? 
A. I think it is a trouble in the upper part of the throat. 
Q. Might there not be inflammation of the air passages to the 
lungs, so as to cause whistling ? 
A. If the trouble was in the air passages, he would breathe 
unnatural at all times. 
Q. If his throat was ulcerated, why wouldn’t he breathe un¬ 
natural at all times ? 
A. He wouldn’t be likely to whistle all the time. In a bad 
whistling horse the throat is separated—the windpipe is separated 
—and one part of the windpipe shuts above the other. I mean 
there is a separation. As I have seen it one, part slips by the 
other. 1 can’t express my opinion exactly here. 
Q. What do you mean by the windpipe separating? 
A. The windpipe is all in joints, and they will expand and 
shrink together. There is a membrane between each one that 
holds the bones together. Then there is a bunch in the throat 
where the bones aint formed like the rest. There is a joint in 
the windpipe. I consider it the same as the joint in a man’s el¬ 
bow. 
Q. Ho you say there is a joint in a horse’s windpipe like the 
joint of your elbow ? 
A. Yes; it is right in the centre of the windpipe, and there is 
a ligature that holds it together, and there is where it separates, 
and causes him to whistle. 
Q. Have you ever read “ Youatt on the Horse?” 
