Tracks and Motion of the Feet 



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sible interference of hind with fore at I in Fig. 4, A and B, and 

 the endeavor to avoid such. In A we have a knee-hitter and in B a 



hind 



fore ^ 



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hind 



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fort 



= hind 



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F/&.4. fro 5 



paddler. The curves of motion of hind are excessive in this instance 

 merely to show the tendency to spread and the point of possible con- 

 tact. In the approximate line trot we are likely to have the same slight 



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contact, as at I in Fig. 5, if the length of the animal does not counter- 

 act such contract, as in I in Fig. 6, where the hind cannot cross the 

 path of the fore except after the fore has preceded it. Such an action 



