





VIII. 



CART HORSES. 



EVERYBODY who cares for the beautiful or the 

 picturesque, whether or not he be touched by 

 the true hippie passion, must take an interest in cart 

 horses. They are attractive and pleasant to look 

 upon merely as animals, quite apart from the fact 

 that you can put bits in their mouths, and cause 

 them to expend their strength at the will and in 

 the service of man. The generic difference in this 

 respect between cart horses and racers is well indi- 

 cated by Mr. Hamerton. 



" The race horse," he says, " has the charms of a 

 tail coat, of a trained pear tree, of all such superfine 

 results of human ingenuity, but he has lost the glory 

 of nature. Look at his straight neck, at the way 

 he holds his head, at his eager, anxious eye, often 



