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easiest calculation to make and will reveal the average position of the 

 feet without much trouble; but to establish a more complete picture 

 of the locomotion the various other averages are resorted to as a check 

 on the first figures. 



This matter is entered into so minutely in order to show that even 

 in a case like this one, where it is difficult to get at the various dif- 

 ferences in measurements, there is a demonstration possible, not only 

 of the extensions, but also of the lack of harmony between the figures,, 

 for such harmony is ordinarily found when the locomotion is a 

 pure trot or a true pace. 



All these details of the relative positions of the feet may strike 

 the reader as too fine or hair-splitting, and they are merely given as a 

 demonstration of the reliability of the measurements and their averages. 

 The fact is at least established that the hind extension is not in 

 accord with that in front, and that from a good regular start the 

 gait degenerates into a half single- foot at the twelfth stride, and con- 

 tinues to get worse by the twentieth stride until finally it would end 

 in a break or run. This gait was, therefore, while it lasted, a cross 

 between the real single- foot and the trot. A glance at the table 

 of Fig. 202 will illustrate this still further. Here we have the tracks 

 of the single-foot, as shown in Fig. 197, in the lines of motion marked 

 B. The time-beats are distinctly and evenly divided into I, 2, 3, 4, 

 and the feet land as numbered. The tracks resemble in position those 

 of the true pace, A, where fore and hind on either side move and 

 land together with equal distances between them to the time-beats, I, 2. 



In C we have the tracks of the pure trot, where the diagonally op- 

 posite feet move together with equal distances between them, and 

 where the time-beats are also i, 2. 



In X, finally, we have the tracks of our present subject, half 

 trotting and half pacing, or rather engaged in an imitation single- foot. 

 While the feet marked 3-4 move together as in the trot, but do not quite 

 coincide in the contact with ground, the feet marked i and 2 show a 

 reverse extension from a similar pair of feet in C. The little arrows 

 indicate the pointing back of off fore and the pointing forward of 

 near hind, a position clearly indicated in the average extensions of 



