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well-known breweries were favourite subjects 

 with some of our best animal painters, who 

 found excellent reason for their preference 

 in the magnificent teams of dray horses of 

 which private firms were so proud. The 

 ownership of, and work performed by, these 

 horses, are however of no special importance ; 

 the interest of the picture, apart from the 

 substance and strenoth of the animals, lies 

 in the colour. This curious partl-colour Is 

 by no means uncommon In the Shires reared 

 In the Fen country ; In the middle of the 

 present century Mr. Colvin, of PishobLiry, 

 Saw^bridge worth, Hertfordshire, had a breed 

 of Shire piebalds on his Home Farm. Mr. 

 Charles Marsters, of Saddlebow, King's 

 Lynn, Norfolk, possessed a celebrated 

 stallion, " Enoland's Wonder," foaled In 

 1871 ; this horse was the sire of good 

 animals, but many of them horses of odd 

 colours. To this day there is a tendency 

 to breed animals with white legs, white 

 markings and odd colours. 



THE SHIRE HORSE IN THE NINETEENTH 

 CENTURY. 



It may be of Interest to see how the east 

 country Shire appeared in the eyes of a very 

 competent judge of horseflesh about the time 



