292 HORSE AND MAN. 



AFTER glancing at the lungs, we come to the 

 STOMACH. 



In proportion to the size and weight of the 

 animal, the dimensions of the stomach are wonder- 

 fully small, the combination of large lungs and small 

 stomach showing that the animal is intended for 

 speed as well as strength. 



I am quite sure that not one groom in a hundred 

 (or say a thousand) has the faintest idea of the differ- 

 ence in size and structure between the stomach of 

 a horse and that of an ox, or that the mode of feed- 

 ing is essentially different. Yet there are plenty of 

 horses and oxen feeding in pasture lands which can 

 be seen by any one who has the use of eyes. 



The ox, having no teeth in the front of the 

 upper jaw, simply squeezes a tuft of grass between 

 the lower incisor teeth and the hard pad which 

 takes their place in the upper jaw, and with a sort 

 of jerk tears off the herbage ' licks up the grass,' 

 according to the Scriptural phrase. The tuft of 

 grass thus torn away is roughly bitten into a sort 

 of ball, and passed into the curious set of chambers 

 into which the stomach is divided. When the animal 

 has obtained a sufficient supply of grass for a meal, 

 it lies down, and returns the food by degrees into the 

 mouth, and then masticates it. 



But the horse, with his single and small stomach, 



