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added spirit, action, speed and bottom. Whatever may be the facts as 

 to their origin, both the sub-famihes of the Norman-Percheron combine 



•j:izi: wiNxixc i'i;):ci ii-;i;i:)M make — six years old. 

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the strength of the old Norman barb with something of the speed of the 

 Arabian, and are capable of carrying great weights and of drawing heavy 



