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friends and fellow-artists. They know him, and 

 he knows them. 



" Come over, old man ! " he says to another. 

 " Bonfanti, that is. There's a head and neck ; 

 he looks over at you like a goose ! There's 

 Mars ! " and Mars shows an eager desire to have 

 some notice taken of him, gazing regretfully 

 after his master as he passes by. 



'' There's Mrs. Tanring's horse, Jupiter. 

 Splendid jumper ! See those quarters, and 

 shoulders the same. Here, boy, strip him. 

 There's power! That's nothing," he says, see- 

 ing that my attention is attracted to a mark 

 on his shoulder. " Some of them got loose one 

 night and bit him, but it's well now. He's a 

 real nice fellow ! " adds his master affectionately, 

 as we leave the gallant horse. 



" Now, here's a strange thing," Mr. Tanring 

 goes on, as we come to a long row of spotted 

 horses. " There are twenty- three of them — 

 come from Western Bohemia. They're all 

 spotted, and the peculiarity about them is that 

 at the bottom of the mountain the spots are 

 quite small — see, like that ! As you get higher 

 up the mountain the spots come bigger, and up 

 at the top they are marked with patches of dark 

 colour. These skewbalds and piebalds come 

 from Schleswig-Holstein. Those creams I got 



