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preference is justified, from their point of view, by the fact 

 that the "bit of Thorley does not "sing," and that it has a 

 much more stimulating effect on jaded steeds than the 

 ordinary attachment to the end of the thong. In return 

 for the large amount of money which the officials of the 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals make out 

 of it, they ought to try and stop the external administration of 



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FIG. 43. Small type of Finnish Pony in Sledge. 



[J/. H. H. 



Thorley. In London at night, when of course the feeblest 

 and most worn-out animals are put into the shafts of cabs, 

 the continual slashing of the whips of hansom drivers is a 

 sound which makes that city hateful to me. 



De Simonoffand de Moerder's Races Chevalines contains 

 a large amount of information on Russian, Finnish and other 

 northern horses. Prince Nicholas Scherbatov, who takes 



