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and inflexibility ; it will, however, suffice for our present 

 purpose to point out two extreme cases, the one of 

 form the ewe-neck ; the other of want of stability the 

 long, straight, thin neck, scantily clothed with flabby 

 muscles. The annexed figure shows how the direction 

 of the pull of the reins is modified in each instance, and 

 how this in its turn changes the direction in which the 



Fig. 6. 



neck acts on the back. We see that with the exaggerated 

 ewe-neck the lever-action goes downwards under the 

 withers immediately on to the fore legs ; with the 

 long thin neck that bends throughout like a fishing-rod 

 (as also with all horses broken and bitted on Baucher's 

 principle), it goes upwards through the withers into the 

 air, in both of these cases missing altogether the centre 

 of motion ; whilst the intermediate position, combined 



