18 HORSE AND MAX. 



the purest lineage are apt to produce young which 

 can hardly be distinguished from the semi-wild 

 rabbits of our warrens. In point of size, the beauti- 

 ful little pony 4 Lady Jumbo,' which was exhibited in 

 1882, afforded a good example of the primitive horse. 

 When shown at Islington she was only thirty inches 

 in height, and was brought from the London Bridge 

 Station to Islington inside a four-wheel cab. 



Sometimes a horse is born with three toes on one 

 foot. In the autumn of 1883, while staying in Boston, 

 Mass., I saw a horse with eight hoofs, the second 

 (i.e. the fore-finger) phalanges being almost as perfectly 

 developed as the third and fourth. The supplemen- 

 tary hoof, although it did not quite reach the ground, 

 was nearly as large as the actual hoof. Unfortunately 

 so are we swayed by custom the owner had shod 

 all the hoofs alike, a piece of barbarism which I lost 

 no time in denouncing. 



Now we will turn to the hind limbs. Here we 

 find almost a repetition of the fore limbs, but the 

 joints are differently arranged. 



Instead of the blade bone there is the hip bone, 

 or ' pelvis,' marked o in the illustration. 



Then comes the thigh bone (femur) in place of 

 the humerus. Here, again, a long and slender thigh 

 bone would be a source of weakness to the animal, 



