THE HOESE AND HIS STBUCTUEE. 



CHAPTER IV. 



THE HEAD AND NECK. 



HAST thou given the horse strength ? Hast thou 

 clothed his neck with thunder ? 



Who can be insensible to the magnificent utterances 

 which, even in a language incapable of rendering the full 

 beauty of the original tongue, throw all our modern 

 poetry into the shade. Yet man, just as he neutralises 

 by iron shoes the natural elasticity of the hoof, by 

 means of various contrivances renders nugatory the 

 exquisite mechanism of the bones, muscles, and ligaments 

 from the neck to the shoulder. 



I wonder whether any of my readers have ever 

 thought about the structures which enable the horse to 



