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IX 
THE ANCESTRY OF THE HORSE 
* Said the little Eohippus 
I am going to be a horse 
And on my middle finger-nails 
To run my earthly course.” 
The American whose ancestors came over in 
the “ Mayflower” has a proper pride in the 
length of the line of his descent. The English- 
man whose genealogical tree sprang up at the 
time of William the Conqueror has, in its eight 
centuries of growth, still larger occasion for 
pluming himself on the antiquity of his family. 
But the pedigree of even the latter is a thing 
| of yesterday when compared with that of the 
horse, whose family records, according to Pro- 
fessor Osborn, reach backward for something 
like 2,000,000 years. And if, as we have been 
told, “it is a good thing to have ancestors, but 
sometimes a little hard on the ancestor,” in this 
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