p. 75. Will any of your readers kindly tell me whether the view is
correct?

"It is said in _Southerene_ v. _Howe_ (2 Rol. Rep. 5.), _Si home
vend chivall que est lame, null action gist peur ceo, mes_
caveat emptor: _lou jeo vend chivall que ad null oculus la null
action gist; autrement lou il ad un conterfeit faux et_ bright
eye." "If a man sell a horse which is lame, no action lyes for
that, but _caveat emptor_; and when I sell a horse that has _no_
eye, there no action lies; otherwise where he has a counterfeit,
false, and _bright eye_."

Thus it appears that a distinction is here made between a horse having
_no_ eye at all, and having a counterfeit, false or _bright_ one. And
probably by _bright eye_ is meant _glass eye_, or _gutta serena_; and
the words "counterfeit" and "false" may be an attempt of the reporter to
explain an expression which he did not understand. Because putting a
false eye into a horse is far in advance of the sharpest practices of
the present day, or of any former period.

Note.--_Gutta Serena_, commonly called glass-eye, is a species of
blindness; the pupil is unusually dilated; it is immovable, bright, and
glassy.

G.H. HEWIT OLIPHANT.
April 16. 1850.


_Christ's Hospital._--In reply to "NEMO" (No. 20. p. 318.), a
contemporary of the eminent Blues there enumerated, informs him, that