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they had merely hooked on a pair of additional legs, those of 

 the rider being scarcely raised a foot off the ground. How 

 would a regiment of cavalry look, mounted, or lowered rather, 

 on these stout little chargers !" 



THE WELSH PONY AND COB. 



One of the most beautiful little animals that can be imagined 

 is the Welsh pony j a breed said to be indebted to the celebrated 

 horse Merlin for its form and qualities. The Welsh pony has 

 a small head, high withers, deep yet round barrel, short joints, 

 flat legs, and good round feet. He is admirably suited for the 

 mountainous tracts to which he belongs, being remarkably 

 sure-footed, nimble, pre-eminently capable of enduring fatigue, 

 and of living on any fare. Cully says of one he rode for many 

 years, that it always preferred the hard pavement to the soft road. 



A small compact little roadster, not more than thirteen hands 

 high, is called a Cob, a term of apparently modern date, and 

 omitted in the dictionaries and encyclopedias. 



