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judges, that one shall be found, who, with the 

 intuition of the youthful Cid, shall select upon the 

 mountain-side a scabby colt for a few shillings, to be 

 subsequently, under Napoleon, the pride of the 

 Tuileries, and the admiration of the Bois de 

 Boulogne. Nor is it for every professing herds- 

 man to calculate the exact combination of Dutch 

 and Galloway blood, which is to result fas the 

 famous " alloy ") in a breed that absolutely coins 

 gold for its fortunate inheritor. There are but a 

 very, very few, and they long miles apart, who can 

 safely reckon on the repeated red hazard game. 



Regard that grey hunter, fresh from Leech's 

 pencil ! What a few strokes he has made to tell, 

 with just the semblance of a scarlet tint to please 

 the eye, exactly the effect one appreciates in Row- 

 botham's snow-scenes. How cleverly the old horse 

 picks his way down the cover-side, a few hounds 

 feathering in advance, not a bone wrong, not a 

 muscle but tense and effective ; and yet, the lines 

 altogether used to depict him are not nearly so 

 many as the sweeps the razor of each one of us takes 

 in its morning toilet duties upon the chin. Every 

 one who has entered a studio knows that there 

 are certain lines of feature, distinguishing one face 

 or form from another, which the artist marks on 

 his plaster models with a series of black-headed 

 pins. It is the getting acquainted with these lines, 

 the reading off at sight the characteristic configura- 

 tion of face or limb, that is the first requisite for 

 success in thus forming a judgment. Where the 

 uneducated eye sees nothing but the plumpness and 



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