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perception, a woman ought to be, other things supposed 

 equal, a better judge of horses than a man, and there 

 must surely be a great many who, if they really believed 

 this, would think it worth their while to master the 

 small vocabulary of technical terms in which the infor- 

 mation they require is always couched, and such would 

 speedily find their reward in the opening of a new and 

 interesting field of research. To begin with, how few 

 ladies so much as know the names of the different parts 

 of the animal ! Head, legs, and body, eyes, ears, and 

 tail, are about all the words in the feminine dictionary 

 of horse lore, and whether the pasterns are not a disease 

 of colts, the coronet a part of a bridle, and the frog a 

 swelling in the throat, my lady knoweth not. A half- 

 hour, however, given to the illustration on the follow- 

 ing page, will remove once for all this preliminary diffi- 

 culty, and will open the way to a consideration of the 

 proper form and motion of the parts of which the 

 names are here given : 



PARTS AND "POINTS" OF THE HOP^SE, ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED. 



Arm, or True Arm (8, 8). — Extends from the point of the shoul- 

 der (29) to the elbow (10). It should be long. 



Back. — This is one of the four parts which, according to Arab 

 saying, should be short. 



Back Sinew. — The powerful muscle back of the cannon-bone. It 

 should be free from contact with the bone. 



Barrel, or Chest.— Should be roomy, as not only the lungs, but all 

 the organs of digestion, are contained in it. 



