^0 THE MORGAN HORSE. 



furnish the stock in trade of all our stump orators for the next 

 fifty Presidential campaigns — we content ourselves here with 

 alluding to the strong points and excellencies of tliis particular 

 variety, (for such the most sturdy opponents to its rank as a 

 distinct family freely admit that it possesses,) referring the 

 reader, who is curious in such matters, to the appropriate trea- 

 tises for and against the claim, which have been as voluminous 

 as the most prolix of Presidential messages. 



'•The original, a 'Justin Morgan'" — we now quote from 

 " Morgan Horses," by D. C. Linsley — " was about fourteen 

 hands high, and weighed about nine hundred and fifty pounds. 

 His color was dark-bay, with black legs, mane, and tail. He 

 had no white hairs upon him. His mane and tail were coarse 

 and heavy, but not so massive as has been sometimes described ; 

 the hair of both was straight, and not inclined to curl. His 

 head was good, not extremely small, but lean and bony, the face 

 straight, forehead broad, ears small and very fine, but set rather 

 wide apart. His eyes were medium size, very dark and promi- 

 nent, and showed no white around the edge of the lid. His 

 nostrils were very large, the muzzle small, and the lips close 

 and firm. His back and legs were, perhaps, his most noticeable 

 points. The former was very short ; the shoulder-blades and 

 thigh-bones being very long and oblique, and the loins exceed- 

 ingly broad and muscular. His body was rather long, round 

 and deep, close-ribbed up ; chest deep and wide, with the breast- 

 bone projecting a good deal in front. His legs were short, 

 close-jointed, thin, but very wide, hard and ^rce from meat, with 

 muscles that were remarkably large for a horse of his size; and 

 this superabundance of muscle manifested itself at every step. 

 His hair was short, and at almost all seasons short and glossy. 



