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and heavy limbs and muscles ; on the other hand, where 

 food was scarce and climate cold and bleak, the \animals 

 became as dwarfed as the ponies of the Shetland Islands. 

 One of the first recorded uses of the horse is found in 

 Genesis, chapter xlix, verse 17, where Jacob speaks of 

 "an adder that biteth the horse heels." Pharaoh took 



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"six hundred chosen chariots" and "with all the horses 

 and chariots" pursued the Israelites. The Greeks at first 

 drove the horse fastened to a rude chariot, and later found 

 that they could manage the animal while on its back, with 

 voice or switch and without either saddle or bridle. This 

 ingenious people soon invented the snaffle bit, and both 

 rode and drove with its aid. The curb bit was a Roman 

 invention. Shoeing was not practiced by either Greek or 



