CHAPTER II. 



PHYSIOGNOMY OF THE HOESE SAGACITY, FIDELITY, 

 SOCIABILITY, &C.J ANECDOTES INSANITY. 



HE physiognomy of the horse is an 

 interesting subject. Those who have 

 made it their study can read the animal's 

 passions and purposes in his face. The follow- 

 ing hints on this topic are chiefly from Pro- 

 fessor Youatt : 

 The eye enables us with tolerable accuracy to 

 guess at the animal's temper. If much of the white is 

 seen, he is not to be lightly trusted. The mischievous 

 horse is always slyly on the look out for opportunities 

 to indulge his malice, and the frequent backward 

 direction of the eye, which makes the white most 

 perceptible, is only to give surer effects to the blow 

 which he is about to aim. 



The quality of the horse's vision differs from that 



