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THE HUNTER: HIS CONFORMATION 



HEAD NECK SHOULDERS BACK LOIN QUARTERS BODY 



LEGS DISPOSITION 



HUNTING man is apt to have rather fixed 

 notions as to how a hunter should be built. 

 His ideal is generally the likeness of some 

 good, faithful beast that has carried him with 

 the greatest ease and safety; which is only another way 

 of saying that a good hunter, whatever he is like, however 

 he is formed, however he is bred, whatever his colour, if he 

 suits and fits us, is not a bad horse. 



The one horse among the multitude that have passed 

 through my hands, by which all horses are compared and 

 come short, was one Brunett, a three-quarter-bred Cana- 

 dian thoroughbred. In conformation she was a collec- 

 tion of minor faults. She was a little over on her knees, 

 slightly sickle-hocked, rather long in the back, had ragged 

 hips, a large plain head, and the longest ears I have ever 

 seen on anything but a mule; nevertheless she was such an 

 animal as one meets with but once in a lifetime. She had 

 courage, spirit, light-heartedness, a happy disposition, rare 

 intelligence, and the most charming manner in harness. 



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