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of fibrous fiesli about the quarters and shoulders, 

 the shank and fore-arm, will be well brought out, and 

 well packed in. To the hand they will feel hard and 

 firm. Such an animal impresses you with the appear- 

 ance of strength : you can see written all over him in 

 capital letters the Avord " endurance." He will stand any 

 amount of work. In strength he is an equine Hercules. 

 Nothing but bad treatment and the passage of many 

 years can break such a horse down, or wear him out. 

 Such an animal was the Old Morrill horse; and like 

 him, in a large measure, is the whole Morrill family, in- 

 cluding his most famous descendant Fearnaught. They 

 are all horses of great muscular vigor and power. 



Consider now, in the third place, the sanguine tempera- 

 ment 



Sanguine is from the Latin, — sanguis, sanguinis, 

 meaning blood. This temperament, therefore, as its 

 name implies, is closely related in its origin to the blood- 

 system, and suggests a large development of heart, lungs, 

 and blood-vessels. A horse with such a temperament will 

 prove long-winded. He will come down the home-stretch 

 with wide-open and capable nostril. He will not pant and 

 labor in aspiration at the close of the heat. Whatever, 

 in the way of speed, he is able to do, he will do with 

 ease. Consider, also, how closely the blood and arte- 

 rial system are connected with the nourishment and sup- 

 port of the body. Remember that it is by the blood 

 alone that the nutritious elements of food are dissemi- 

 nated through the entire system, and the needed suste- 



