The Sporting Dictionary, and Rural Repository, Volume 1 (of 2) / Of General Information upon Every Subject Appertaining to the Sports of the Field

by William Taplin

HALTING

—may be considered a limping, or slight impediment to FREE and EASY ACTION, implying some kind of perceptible defect or disquietude, not amounting to absolute LAMENESS. Whenever this irregularity in motion is first observed, and that the legs do not move in corresponding uniformity, or, in other words, as if they were not fellows, an accurate examination should be immediately made to ascertain the CAUSE, that it may be speedily relieved; upon a very fair presumption, that what might produce only a limping or halting in the first instance, might probably become a confirmed LAMENESS by a perseverance in use, without adverting to the proper means of alleviation upon the original discovery of something amiss.