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POINTS. 



mon Father was actuated by benevolence in all His ordinizations, and 

 therefore hairs have their appointed uses. 



GOOD AND ACTIVE EARS. LARGE EARS. 



EARS WIDE APART. 



LOW-BRED EARS. 



With the ears no corporal excellence is connected, but with the health 

 of this organ the general safety is associated ; for the acuteness of the 

 animal's hearing afiPords no mean protection to the rider. The absolute 

 quietude of the ears indicates that sounds are powerless to excite the 

 organ. Excessive restlessness of these parts suggests that by straining 

 of one sense, the animal is endeavoring to recompense the obscurity of 

 another : that the vision is either lost or imperfect. A lively carriage 

 of the ears expresses a sprightly temper, and generally denotes a kind 

 disposition ; whereas one member constantly directed forward and the 

 other backward, is a frequent sign of "vice," or of timidity in its watch- 

 fulness. 



Near the ear is the seat of another special sense. Many people will 

 pretend to discover the disposition of a horse by the character of the 

 eyes. A restlessness of the globe, the display of any unusual quantity 

 of white, and a perpetual tension on the upper lid are imagined to signify 

 a "vicious" inclination; but, in reality, these traits express only the 

 watchfulness of fear. Such indications are evidences of that suffering 

 which has been experienced; and these traits are consonant with an 

 anxiety to escape the future assaults of brutality. Despair may not be 

 desirable as a companion ; but it is not, therefore, to be falsely stigma- 

 tized. 



A prominent eye, expressive of repose, and not exhibiting an abund- 

 ance of white, has been pronounced to be declarative of honesty, though 

 certain parties have condemned it as indicative of slothfulness. A 

 quickness or activity, as contradistinguished from a restlessness in the 

 visual organ, is, however, to be desired. The small eye usual with the 

 coarser breed of animals should be avoided, because it is generally 

 accompanied by a heaviness of movement. The retracted or deep-set 

 eye, which displays the organ only partially, which is somewhat angular 

 in figure, and which is commonly spoken of as "a pig-eye," denotes 



