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serviceable " (Sir F. Fitzwygram). The former 

 will mean hundreds of pounds instead of tens, in 

 which only the bulk of our young soldiers are able 

 to deal. A picture of each is given in Plate VII. 



Medium and light-weight horses must, for our 

 purposes, be looked at much in the same way as 

 described above, though in a less and less degree as 

 their weight-carrying capacities decrease. Speci- 

 mens of each are shown in Plate VIII. Photographs 

 of horses more or less suitable for different sorts of 

 army work are shown in Plates IX. and X. It 

 may be as well to make a few remarks about the 

 horses shown in these plates. 



Except in the case of the horse represented in 

 Fig. I, Plate VII., which appears a "dream" of 

 a weight-carrying hunter, they must not be taken 

 as perfect samples of their class, but merely as 

 representative types which have proved them- 

 selves good in the " handsome is as handsome 

 does " way. 



In Fig. 2, Plate VII., the horse is standing badly, 

 his fore-legs are too much under him and his hind- 

 legs too much away. In spite of this, however, 

 it can be seen that his shoulders lie well back and 

 slope fairly, and also that he has power behind. 

 He may be taken as a sample of the useful, but not 

 expensive, soldier's weight-carrier. 



Fig. I, Plate VIII., shows a medium-weight horse. 

 By the photograph he appears somewhat upright 

 and "lumpy" in the shoulders, and he is certainly 

 rather short and upright in the pasterns. Notwith- 



