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CHAP. XXV. 



ON THE WALK. 



THE natural paces of a horse are the walk, 

 the trot, and the gallop. In walking, every 

 horse invariably lifts two legs on the same 

 side, beginning with the hind leg first. For 

 instance, he lifts his off hind foot and puts it 

 forward, and nearly at the time he sets it down 

 lifts his off fore foot and puts it forv/ard, set- 

 ting down the hind foot near where the fore 

 foot stood, which passes over or falls short of 

 the place where the fore foot stood in propor- 

 tion as his walk is more or less accelerated, 

 Sonietimes he places it exactly in the track of 

 the fore foot. The fore foot which he first 

 lifted he sets down a step before the fore foot 

 which remained at rest. As he is putting 

 dov/nthis foot, which for example wesupposeto 

 be the off" fore foot, he lifts the near hind foot 

 and puts it forward near to where the fore foot 



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