SHETLAND PONY 
endurance. The pure breed is large and heavy, and is notable for a very long stride. 
When judiciously crossed with other breeds it produces offspring which are extensively 
employed in the carriage and for the saddle. The figure of the Clydesdale Cart Horse 
which accompanies this brief notice is a portrait of a remarkably fine animal named 
Prince Albert. 
SEVERAL breeds of partially wild Horses are still found in the British islands, the best 
known of which is the SazrLanp Pony. 
This odd, quaint, spirited little animal is an inhabitant of the islands at the northern 
extremity of Scotland, where it runs wild, and may be owned by any one who can catch 
and hold it. Considering its diminutive proportions, which only average seven or eight 
hands in height, the Sheltie is wonderfully strong, and can trot away quite easily with 
a tolerably heavy man on its back. One of these little creatures carried a man of twelve 
stone weight for a distance of forty miles in a single day. The head of this little animal 
is small, the neck short and well arched, and covered. with an abundance of heavy mane, 
that falls over the face and irresistibly reminds the spectator of a Skye-terrier. It is an 
admirable draught Horse when harnessed to a carriage of proportionate size ; and a pair of 
these spirited little creatures, when attached to a low lady’s carriage, have a remarkably 
piquant and pretty appearance. 
MAN has so long held the Domestic Ass under his control, that its original progenitors 
have entirely disappeared from the face of the earth. 
There are, as it is well known, abundant examples of wild Asses found in various 
lands, but it seems that these animals are either the descendants of domesticated Asses 
which have escaped from captivity, or mules between the wild and domestic animals. 
In size and general appearance the Ass varies greatly, according to the country which it 
inhabits, and the treatment to which it is subjected. The Spanish kind, for example, 
is double the size of the ordinary English Ass, and even the latter animal is extremely 
variable in stature and general dimensions. As a rule, the Ass is large and sleek-haired 
countries, and small and woolly-haired in the colder parts of the globe. 
