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with narrow chests and long legs, and disposed to 

 have ' thrushes' in the ' frogs' of their fore feet, and 

 are also prone to diarrhoea. It would be beyond the 

 province of this little book to enter into a lengthened 

 explanation of these coincidences and shorter ex- 

 planations would not suffice. 



33. — The side face should be deep for the same 

 reasons that the front face between the eyes should 

 be broad, that is, for roomy nostrils above and for 

 the efficient setting of the massive grinders. 



34. — Length of head is not of such importance. 

 It cannot well be too short so far as the chief re- 

 quisites are concerned. When we find very narrow 

 faces, we frequently find length of face great. 



35. — The so-called forehead of a horse is the 

 space bounded below by a straight line drawn be- 

 tween the eyes, above by roots of the hair of the fore- 

 lock, and at the sides by the large muscles which 

 lift the lower against the upper one. The breadth 

 of the forehead depends upon the breadth between 

 the eyes and the size of these muscles. It is almost 

 impossible to judge the size of the brain in the 

 living horse by breadth of forehead. Size of brain 

 is no index of character in either horse or man. 

 In either case, we can only judge of a brain by the 

 quality and quantity of the thought, and so forth, 

 it produces, so that we need not dwell further 

 on the physical aspects of the head. 



36. — The eyes should be as large as possible, and 

 not be obliquely set in the face as in the Chinese. 



