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leg, will you ;' they have found it a handful. People 

 not very conversant with such matters are often much 

 deceived by the size of a good flat leg. In coarser 

 bred horses there is a portion of flesh on their legs, in 

 the high bred one there is none — it is all, figuratively 

 speaking, iron and wire. You may laugh, which I see 

 you do, at my expression ; but this I can tell you, 

 the bone and sinew of the thorough-bred horse is so 

 totally different in texture from that of the common- 

 bred animal, that the size of the latter is far more 

 than counterbalanced by the quality of the former." 



