b THE PERFECT HORSE. 



nance carried to every part. You observe, therefore, 

 how vital a part this order of temperament plays in the 

 economy of the system, and how prominent a place it 

 should hold among those characteristics and qualities 

 which the purchaser and breeder of horses must observe 

 in order to reach by an accurate analysis a true and 

 proper conclusion touching the value of the animal 

 under consideration. The horse with such a tempera- 

 ment will not only have excellent lungs, but he will be 

 generally healthy : what he eats will actually nourish 

 him ; and day by day, by exercise and food, will he 

 renew his symmetrical life. 



The last of the four kinds of temperament is the hjm- 

 pliatic. A horse with this temperamental organization is 

 to be shunned. He will be large in the abdomen, lazy, 

 and inclined to lay on useless fat. He will be sluggish, 

 slow-moving, and shambling in his gait ; a stumbler, and 

 krcker-up of dust ; a heavy, fleshy animal, — more of a 

 pig than a horse. 



I have now enumerated the four kinds of tempera- 

 mental organization peculiar to horses as to men, and 

 endeavored to so describe and illustrate them that my 

 youngest reader may know them at a glance. They 

 teach us an instructive lesson ; none the less so because 

 generally unnoted by those who have attempted, by 

 voice and printed page, to teach us concerning the 

 structure and constitution of the horse. The lesson is 

 this, — that by no study of the outward form can one 

 judge correctly of this noble animal. You must push 



