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this jack-rabbit style is indicative of nervousness 

 and possible vice — or at least of uncertain temper. 



The brov^^ should be broad: rather full (not pro- 

 truding). Here lies the brain — the intelligence — 

 which varies as much in animal as in man. Such a 

 horse's instincts are generous — his play will be 

 only fun, his work well done; while the narrow- 

 browed dullard will prove a shirk or worse, and 

 his playfulness but slightly removed from meanness 

 of some sort. 



Broad should be the jaws where the neck joins; 

 free and clear the windpipe; the neck itself rather 

 long, nobly arched, and crested, well-veined, thicker 

 in the middle than at top or bottom. Never accept 

 the short, straight-necked, narrow- jawed beast — 

 he is deformed, and cannot bend and supple himself 

 as he can if the neck is what it should be, — one of 

 his most attractive possessions. 



The chest should be large, deep, and round in 

 proportion to depth. Here lies the steam-room con- 

 taining the heart and lungs, and upon them depends 

 the endurance of the animal ; mere beauty amounts 



