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long time to dry on the surface of the body, we may 

 reasonably conclude that general weakness is the cause of this 

 excessive action of the pores of the skin. I may explain that 

 when a horse sweats from excitement (as on a race-course), 

 the surface of the body thus moistened, will not dry quickly ; 

 for as long as the excitement lasts, the outpouring of the fluid 

 will more or less continue. 



Good Looks. — Beauty in the horse is dependent : — 



1. On the uniformity of type which the various parts of 

 the body bear to each other. Thus, a Shire horse with his 

 Roman nose, loaded shoulders, and short legs, may be quite 

 as handsome as a good-looking English thoroughbred, or 

 a showy, high-caste Arab. 



2. On the artistic arrangement of the lines of his body. 

 We may see the importance of this from a beauty point of 

 view, if, for example, we contrast a photograph of a horse 

 having the ears pricked forward, with another one of the 

 same animal, taken a moment afterwards, but having the 

 ears in a normal position. The former may look handsome, 

 and the latter plain ; although the two may be absolutely 

 identical in every particular, except in that of the ears. The 

 "line of beauty" (alternate convexity and concavity, or vice 

 versa) is well exemplified from the tip of the off ear to the 

 top of the croup, in PL 31 ; in which there is, however, a 

 too sudden depression of the quarter. The curves from tip 

 of ear to end of tail, are also good in PI. 35. except that 

 the line of the crest and that of the croup would be improved 

 if they were slightly more convex. For very beautiful curves 

 of the upper line of the body, from tip of nose to tail, 

 see PI. 55. One reason (which possibly might escape 



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