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motion and speed in a direct or circular motion. The 

 greyhound is the most perfect and positive example 

 among our domestic animals of this use of the tail, 

 which with him is long, as in all mammal animals of 

 prey, requiring sudden reverse of action when under 

 speed on a direct course. 



The instinct of the bare, whose greatest and most 

 deadly enemy is the greyhound, teaches it when hard 

 pressed to turn suddenly round, while the hound, being 

 heavier and not expecting the sudden change of course, 

 is unable to turn so short or check his speed, and thus 



Fig. 48. STRAIT-JACKETS. Fig. 49. 



passes on while the hare is making time in another direc- 

 tion. See the fancy head-gear and steering apparatus, 

 as represented in figures 48 and 49 ; they are little short 

 of an equine strait-jacket that inventors prepare for 

 horses of certain tendencies that certainly have instinctive 

 appreciations of the cruelty of the driver, and a necessity 

 f jr perfect submission to the inevitable ignorance of what 

 he needs to perform his duties long and well. 



The fine bred Xorman stallion, for getting carriage 

 horses, represented in figure 50, not being put on any 

 speed faster than a walk would bear all this lacing and 

 binding up to a fancy position while at work, because he 

 needs no extra supply of wind in his lungs while at his 



