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CHAPTER II 



THE SADDLE-HORSE 

 BY ALFRED E. T. WATSON 



O speak of the 

 * saddle-horse ' 

 is to employ 

 an exceedingly 

 comprehensive 

 term, includ- 

 ing, as it does, 

 horses of all 

 sorts, from the 

 rough creature that 

 ranges the Austra- 

 lian bush or the Ameri- 

 can prairie and scarcely 

 has a monetary value, to 

 the Derby favourite, worthy 

 representative of a long line 

 of distinguished ancestors, 

 himself the perfection of make 

 and shape and though ill-shaped 

 horses have won the Derby, and of 



late years neither Ormonde nor Donovan would have been picked 

 out for their looks the greatest of all possible contrasts to his 

 humble far-away cousin the broncho. No attempt will be made 



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