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plains that he has no water for irrigation, but he will not 

 work for the future ; he will not only not plant trees, but 

 will not conserve those which themselves strive to grow. 

 So soon as a pine-tree struggles up, as many do, to a size 

 big enough to produce resin, he scores it to death to secure 

 enough of its life-blood to keep his nasty wine, heedless of 

 the fact that if he would let a few grow bigger, they 

 would produce resin in abundance and water besides. 



So died out the noble little Thessalian, whom Homer 

 has immortalized in the horses of Diomed with flowing 

 manes, and to whom Phidias has lent eternity on the splen- 

 did frieze of the Parthenon ; who has written his own 

 name in history on the pages which narrate the heroism 

 at the Granicus, the struggle for life at Arbela, the 

 charges seven times repeated at the Hydaspes. By-the- 

 way, it is rather curious that, accurate as the horses of 

 Phidias are in the sequence of step which the photograph 

 alone has revealed to modern artists, they are fault} 7 " in 

 projecting the fore-feet so far beyond the head. No horse 

 can hold his head so high as to throw his fore-feet far be- 

 yond it. In no photographs, eren of high-headed horses, 

 are the fore-feet in any gait even out to a line dropped 

 perpendicularly from the horse's nose. But for all that, 

 Phidias came nearer to giving us the anatomically correct 

 action of the horse than any one prior to mechanical 

 Muy bridge ever succeeded in doing. 



