THE ASS AND MULE. 685 



raising common horses, since a pair of good mules will readily 

 bring more money, and will cost less to raise, and be ready for 

 sale at an earlier age than horses. They are seldom blemished, 

 and cost nothing to break to work. 



The Hinny. The hinny is another hybrid, the produce 

 of a she ass bred to a horse. Like the mule it resembles its 

 sire more than its dam. It is handsome, round-bodied like the 

 horse, but is very small, and slow in motion. The hinny neighs 

 like the horse, and the mule brays similarly to the ass. 

 Though the hinny is hardier, more patient, and can endure more 

 scanty fare, and greater privation than the horse it is inferior in 

 all these respects to the ass and mule. 



Herbert argues from the results of breeding the hinny and 



. the mule, that they furnish strong arguments why breeders 



should invariably seek to have the qualities of blood, temper, 



courage, and spirit on the side of the sire, and those of form 



and size on that of the dam. 



The breeder of animals will have noticed the fact that the 

 ass is more prepotent than the horse, as the form and organiza- 

 tion of both the mule and hinny prove. This may be accounted 

 for on the principle of the long line of in-breeding of the ass, 

 extending as it does many centuries back of the origin of the 

 English thoroughbred. 



The prepotency of the quagga and zebra are greater than 

 that of the horse or even the ass, on the same principle. 



