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drawn a weight of three tons for a short distance. In 

 former times, when burdens were removed from one 

 locality to another by horses without carts, the pack- 

 horses of Yorkshire were accustomed to carry the 

 weight of four hundred and twenty pounds over the 

 old roads, which usually traversed high and precipitous 

 hills. 



THE SUFFOLK PUNCH-HORSE. 



This hardy and active breed has now become 

 nearly extinct. They are rather under sixteen hands 

 in height, and their colour chestnut or sorrel. Their 

 heads are rather large and coarse ; their ears being too 

 long and placed too distant from each other for modern 

 taste. The body is deep, capacious, and compact ; 

 the shoulders wide and thick at top, and somewhat 

 low, with the rump more elevated than the shoulder, 

 which it is supposed enables them to throw much of 

 their weight into the collar. They are large and 

 strong in the quarters, full in the flanks, flat and short 

 in the legs, with short pasterns. 



In the *' Sportsman's Repository" we are told 

 that " they were the only race of horses which would 

 collectively draw repeated dead pulls, namely, draw 

 pull after pull, and down upon their knees, against a 

 tree, or any body which xhey felt could not be moved, 

 to the time of Jup, Ji ! ! and the crack of the whip 

 (once familiar, but abominable sounds, which even 

 now vibrate on our auditory nerves) as long as nature 

 supplied the power, and would renew the same 

 exertions to the end of the chapter." 



The hideous yelling of most carters and farm 

 servants, which is still prevalent when driving horses, 

 not only in this country, but also on the Continent, is 

 a barbarous custom ; for I have known many instances 



