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spirited but pleasant expression, and showed no white round 

 the edge of the lid. His nostrils were very large, the nuiz- 

 jde small and the lips close and firm. His back and legs 

 were perhaps his most noticeable points. The former was 

 very short ; the shoulder blades and hip bones being very 

 long and oblique and the loins exceedingly broad and mus- 

 cular. His body was rather long, round and deep, close 

 ribbed up ; chest deep and wide, with the breast bone pro- 

 jecting a good deal in front. His legs were short, close 

 jointed, thin but very wide, hard and free from meat, with 

 muscles that were remarkably large for a horse of his size, 

 and his superabundance of muscle exhibited itself at every 

 step. His hair was short, and at almost all seasons soft and 

 glossy. He had a little long hair about the fetlocks and for 

 two or three inclies above the fetlock on the l)ack side of 

 the legs ; tlie rest of the limbs was entirely free from it. 

 His feet were small but well shaped, and he was in every 

 respect perfectly sound and free from any sort of blemish. 

 He was a very fast walker. In trotting his gait was low 

 and smooth and his step short and nervous ; he was not 

 what in those days would be called fast, and we think it 

 doubtful whether he could trot a mile much, if any, Mnthin 

 four minutes, though it is claimed by many tliat he could trot 

 it in three. Althougli he raised his feet l)nt little, he nev^er 

 stumbled. His proud, bold and fearless style of movement, 

 and vigorous, untiring action, have perhaps never l)een sur- 

 passed. When a rider was on him, he was obedient to the 

 slightest motion of the rein, would walk Ijackwards rapidly 

 under a gentle pressure of the bit, and moved sideways 

 almost as willingly as he moved forward ; in short, was per- 



