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Irictionless gait at both slow and fast paces ; a fast 

 and free walker; fearless, and should go at all his 

 paces without [uilling. The temptation is always 

 t(j buy a rather small horse, for one reason because 

 there are more of them, and hence they are more 

 easily found, and for another, because they are sup- 

 posed to be more easily kept. This last recom- 

 mendation is a usual attribute, and the small horse 

 has all the best of it if he is thick through — "to 

 meet and to follow." as the dealers say — wide in 

 proportion to heig'ht. The narrow horse of any 

 height is to be discarded, for there seems to be a 

 lack of storage room- for the vital organs — heart, 

 kings, and stomach — which carries with it a 

 delicacy of constitution that is not desirable. The 

 sturd}' little horse is generally as able as he looks, 

 and this means a good deal if a roadster is to be 

 such in fact as well as name, and to cover his twenty 

 or thirty miles on demand as a good horse should, 

 repeating the trip if necessary on several consecutive 

 days. 



American types nf horses, carriages, and harness, 



