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he hadn't. The human figure is, at best, a difficult subject to 

 handle, and in its introduction with mounted quadrupeds the 

 designer often finds, to his sorrow, how very short is the step 

 from the sublime to the ridiculous. In general I should say 

 that the human figure is an excellent thing to leave out of a 

 group of mounted quadrupeds, unless it happens to be an Es- 

 quimau completely enveloped in thick furs. In the prepara- 

 tion of groups of this class, the ambitious taxidermist has be- 

 fore him almost as great a variety of subjects as has the 

 sculptor, since his work is subject to precisely the same general 

 rules. 



