118 NEIGHBORS WITH CLAWS AND HOOFS. 



Cleveland bay from England, the diminutive pony from 

 the Shetland Islands, and the wiry little mustang from 





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Group of Horses. 



our Western pampas. The horse among us is receiving 

 a kinder and more intelligent treatment, in return for 

 which he is giving a more valuable recompense in faithful 

 service. Classed usually with the pachyderms, or thick- 

 skinned animals, the horse, singular as it may seem, 

 walks on his toe-nails, and these tips of his feet are 

 formed into hard, firm hoofs, well adapted to hold the 

 strong iron shoe, and to renew the waste occasioned by 

 continued wear. 



2. The common donkey is derived from the immense 

 plains of the interior of Asia, and is known in nearly all 



