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a few points in question. Fig. 195 shows the pacer in a position of the 

 pendulum-like swing of the fore and hind legs, as discussed under 

 Figs. 15 and 16. It also brings out well the danger point of "cross- 

 firing," although in the gait of this pacer there was no such interference. 

 We have here also the observation made in Fig. 26 of the gait of a 

 pacer in ten consecutive attitudes. Here as well as there the correlated 

 hind foot leaves the ground a little sooner than its forward mate. That 

 is, in this instance the near hind is well up while the near fore is just 

 above the ground. In the group of the three trotters under Figs. 22, 

 23 and 24 we notice the opposite movement, namely, the fore leaves the 

 ground a little ahead of its correlated and opposite hind foot, although 

 in Clay, Fig. 25, this is not the case. This seems to be dependent on 

 the forward action, which in the trotter is generally higher and bolder 

 than in the pacer. The easy, low and apparently more frictionless 

 movements of the pacer seem to enable him to use the fore legs more 

 readily as propellers as well as props and levers. In Fig. 195 we see 

 the toe of. off hind foot pointing down still, showing that the leg is not 

 stretched out to its full length or ready for the contact with the ground ; 

 for, the heel of the foot must be the first to land. 



Another instance of the low movements in front as well as behind 

 is shown in Fig. 196, Morning Star 2:04^ being the object of our 

 gaze just as the animal is in mid-air. The picture is well taken and 

 proves that, although a pacer's movements are lower than a trotter's, 

 the elevation of the horse from the ground is in many cases not any 

 less. While not so fully extended as Anaconda, this subject must have 

 good lines of motion. We can notice, likewise, the equal backward 

 and forward extension on which so much depends for an even fall of 

 the feet and an equal distance between the two pairs of correlated 

 feet. 



All of these five horses show a smooth and even action and ex- 

 tension and impress the beholder as being well balanced and one can 

 almost hear the regularity of the fall of their feet. They serve as good 

 living examples of the subject under discussion, namely, that a good 

 square gait must have for its foundation the practical equality of the 

 two distances between the two pairs of correlated feet. The average 



