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Herds and Flocks and Horses. 



SHIRE MARE 



this great powerful and magnificent animate creature, capable 

 of hauling immense loads and along such places and thorough- 

 fares as nothing else could do, and where motors powerful 

 enough to bear the loads, Avould be incapable of dealing with 

 them in such a way as to make them handy, serviceable and 

 practical. The brewer's dray, the immense wagons for hauling 

 coal, machinery and other cumbrous material, as well as for 

 opening up the vast territories of as yet untouched sections of 



