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pected to be moderately fast in gait, and sufficiently heavy 

 in build to pull a fairly heavy load. 



FIG. 188. How the horse has increased in size. The smallest fossil horse 

 (A) was no larger than a dog and had four toes on the front foot and 

 three on the hind foot. (>) was 40 inches high with three toes on each 

 foot. See Century Magazine for November, 1904. 



Then there is the pony race of small horses, good-tem- 

 pered and yet brisk in motion, but quite hardy and tough. 



