Take notice that the legs should not be tottering, and inclining forward either at the knee, or ancle; and that the ancle joints should not be large in front. The back sinews, also, should not appear bowed out behind, nor feel thick; the symptoms of their having sustained some injury. The legs should be flat, and not round; neither should they feel soft and puffy; but wiry and hard. Both legs should be alike; for if one be larger than the other, it is an injured leg. Never buy a horse with a big leg, for a sound one, even though he be warranted. You need not mind a splent, or bony excrescence on the shank, unless it be so situated as to interfere with the suspensory ligament, or project so much as to be hit with the other leg in going. Ringbones, or enlargements on the pasterns and coronet, are easily perceived from a difference in the two legs; as it rarely occurs, even when both legs are affected, that they are affected equally Incipient ringbones will sometimes produce lameness, even before they are observable without very minute inspection.