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mane, and tail. He had no white hairs on him. His 

 mane and tail were coarse and heavy, but not so mas- 

 sive 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 prominent, with a spirited but pleasant 

 expression, and showed no white round 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 hip-bones being 

 very long and oblique, and the loins exceedingly 

 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 free from meat, with muscles that were 

 remarkably large for a horse of his size ; and this super- 

 abundance of muscle exhibited itself at every step. 

 Plis hair was short, and, at almost all seasons, soft and 

 glossy. He had a little long hair about the fetlocks, 

 and for two or three inches above the fetlock, on the 

 back-side of the legs: the rest of the limbs were 

 entirely free from it. His feet were small, but well 

 shaped ; and he was in every respect perfectly sound, 

 and free from any sort of blemish. He was a very fast 

 walker. In trotting, his gait was low and smooth, and 



