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tion of the larger horse dwells somewhat, per- 

 missibly, and is therefore more deliberate, but 

 it must be high all around. 



Eunabout horses are used singly. A runa- 

 bout pair is very much of a farce. This is a 

 nondescript article in horseflesh, of varying size 

 but never large, ranging perhaps up to 15.3 

 hands and from that down to 14.3, with a bit of 

 speed, a bit of action, more or less of the confor- 

 mation of the park horse, but not his action. 

 In short, the runabout horse is about half way 

 between the roadster and the heavy harness 

 horse and generally he is docked, though not 

 always. 



As the class of farm workers includes every- 

 thing that is not of sufficient size or merit to 

 go into the higher-priced lots, so the business 

 and pleasure class may be said to be a very 

 elastic one. A horse may be mighty useful and 

 yet not class as a roadster, park, carriage or 

 runabout horse. The more inferior lots of the 

 trotter type fill the livery stables and the more 

 chubby ones go into buggy work in the cities, 

 the South taking many of each kind. A hearse 

 horse is a light expresser which happens to be 

 black in color and may weigh as much as 1,300 

 pounds. I want to say again that it is useless 

 to attempt to explain by rule of thumb the divid- 

 ing lines between the various market classes, 

 more especially nowadays when the demand for 

 horses exceeds the supply and buyers are will- 



