64 LESSONS IN HORSE JUDGING. 



49.— The remaining bones explain themselves 

 almost. Taking the bone in our middle finger from 

 the knuckle to the first joint, we find it correspond- 

 ing in everything but size to the long pastern bone 

 of the horse. 



50. — The next bone to this again corresponds 

 with our next bone in the middle finger, but is rela- 

 tively very much shorter and broader. 



51. — The last bone is very highly developed in 

 the horse, and is called the pedal or * coffin' bone. In 

 ourselves it is little more than rudimentary, on ac- 

 count of its not being called upon as a lowest point 

 to bear the weight of our body. We can very dis- 

 tinctly see the resemblance it has to the same bone 

 in the horse in the skeletons of those who, during 

 life, used their fingers in hard heavy toil. 



52. — The next three bones are sessamoid bones, 

 and are very specially more related with the long 

 tendons which stretch from the back of the knee 

 to the foot. 



So much for the 'bars' of our levers which we 

 saw were in the animal, the hones. Now for the 

 poivers of the animal levers which we saw were the 

 muscles with their tendons. 



53. — On referring to Fig. 8, E, it will be seen 

 that we have the bones of the fore extremity hidden 

 or clothed by their muscles. This, however, is a 

 picture or a faithful representation of the parts as 

 they are in reality, and as the origins (fixed points) 

 of the muscles and their insertions (moveable points) 



