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which the other feet are placed upon the ground will 

 be: the right fore, the left hind, and the left fore, 

 commencing again with the right hind. 



Assuming that our observation of the stride of a 

 horse during an ordinary walk commences with the 

 landing of the right hind foot, the body will then be 

 supported by both hind and the left fore feet. The 

 left hind is now lifted, the support of the body de- 

 volves upon the diagonals — the right hind and left 

 fore — and continues so supported until the left hind 

 is in the act of passing to the front of the right; when 

 the right fore is next placed on the ground. The left 

 fore is now raised, and the body is supported by the 

 right laterals, until the landing of the left hind foot 

 relieves its fellow hind of a portion of its weight. 

 Two steps or one-half of a stride have now been made, 

 and with the substitution of the right feet for the left, 

 two other steps will be executed in practically the 

 same manner, and a full stride will have been com- 

 pleted. We thus see that during the walk a quadruped 

 is supported by eight different methods, the support- 

 ing limbs being consecutively: 



Both hind and left fore. 



Right hind and left fore diagonals. 



Rio^ht hind and both fore. 



Right hind and right fore laterals. 



Both hind and right fore. 



Left hind and right fore diagonals. 



Left hind and both fore. 



Left hind and left fore laterals. 



Followed as at the commencement with both hind 

 and left fore. 



