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cat or dog. If he would study the movements of a horse, 

 the lines of a horse, and the habits of a horse, let him 

 go, not to the racecourse or the stables, but to a field 

 where horses are out at grass. Let him watch the 

 movements of a lumbering carthorse breaking into a 

 canter at the sight of a stranger, and he will learn more 

 about the real horse than he will in the return journey 

 from Epsom. The impression will be matt-surfaced, 

 but it will be more akin to truth. 



Cattle, by which we mean oxen and cows, are photo- 

 graphically one of the most difficult subjects possible. 

 It is hard to say why it should be so, but the fact 

 remains that, with the possible exception _of half-a- 

 dozen prints which are frankly pictorial, and in which 

 cattle supply a subordinate contribution to the general 

 effect, there are no really satisfactory photographic 

 pictures of cattle published. A reason may possibly be 

 found in the angularity of the subject. Personally the 

 writer has hitherto altogether failed to secure a group 

 of cattle in which one or more have not displayed this 

 angularity to disadvantage. Yet, if one watches a herd 

 of cows pasturing or walking along the road, there is 

 nothing obviously displeasing to the eye, and so one is 

 driven to conclude that in the common cow we have 

 photographically a really difficult subject. 



With sheep, the case is just the opposite. Sheep 

 have suffered very much at the hands of pictorial 

 photographers. They ( not infrequently form a piebald 

 and subordinate part in a landscape scheme. " Where 

 the nibbling flocks do stray " has been a peg on which 



