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very wide apart. His eyes were medium size, very 

 dark and prominent, with a spirited but pleasant 

 expression, and showed no white round the edge 

 of the lid. His nostrils were very large, the muz- 

 zle small and the lips close and firm. His back 

 and legs were perhaps his most noticeable point. 

 The former was very short, the shoulder blades 

 and hip bones being very long and oblique, and 

 the loins extremely long and muscular. His body 

 was rather round, long and deep, close ribbed up ; 

 chest deep and wide, with the breast bone pro- 

 jecting a good deal in front. His legs were short, 

 close jointed, thin, but very wide, hard and free 

 from meat, with muscles that were remarkably 

 large for a horse of his size, and this superabun- 

 dance of muscle exhibited itself at every step. His 

 hair was short and at almost all seasons soft and 

 glossy. He had a little long hair about the fetlocks 

 and for two or three inches above the fetlocks on 

 the back sides of the legs; the rest of the limbs 

 were entirely free from it. His feet were small but 

 well shaped, and he was in every respect per- 

 fectly sound and free from every sort of blemish. 

 He was a very fast walker. In trotting his gait 



