$6 PINK AND SCARLET 



they save him from making, and his country from 

 the effects of, a similar mistake. 



While on the subject of the hind-quarters it may 

 be said, that if a horse's dock is difficult to raise up, 

 I.e. if it offers much resistance, it is supposed to be a 

 sign of a good constitution. Again, there are veteri- 

 nary surgeons who hold that a horse with a small 

 sheath is more liable to go wrong in the wind than 

 one which has a well-developed one. 



Captain Hayes gives photographs of almost every 

 sort of horse, and certainly of every sort of legs, 

 heads, etc., etc., and he so clearly and fully describes 

 the noticeable points of each picture, that his book is 

 a complete education for the eye that can retain the 

 points, and then compare them with, or rather 

 detect their presence or absence in, the live animal. 

 There are, however, one or two classes of horses 

 which Captain Hayes does not show, or perhaps it 

 is more correct to say, does not specially point out, 

 as such, and these our young soldier will be none 

 the worse for having in his mind's eye. They are 

 the cheap useful hunter for light, medium, and 

 heavy weights, and the horses suitable for the 

 Cavalry trooper, for the gun, for the baggage-wagon, 

 and for the Mounted Infantry cob. 



The talk of a cheap heavy-weight hunter may be 

 called absurd. But what is meant here is not the 

 ideal article, be it a prize-winner or a great-charac- 

 tered horse, but the useful rough-and-tumble one, a 

 horse, in fact, *' selected by rejection for bad points 

 . . . such a one may be plain, but will at least be 



