THE AIK FLIGHT. IX 



ground, and during that time, as of necessity his legs must move 

 faster than his body, the fore legs may change their position from 

 tlie curled-up one described above to the extended one represented 

 by all painters as proper to the gallop. Observation alone can there- 

 fore settle this question ; but, as I before remarked, a race-glass at a 

 distance of a quarter of a mile enables a careful observer to satisfy 

 himself that our received ideas of the extended gallop are incorrect." 

 Following this is a jjicture of a horse with fore legs bent at the 

 knee, and nearly parallel, and the hind legs thrust out behind. In 

 number two of the instantaneous }»hotographs, the hind and fore legs 

 are all doubled up under the body by being bent at the knees and 

 hocks. The near fore foot, which is nearly ready to leave the ground 

 in number one, just touches the line which marks twelve inches, and 

 that and the right hind foot are in proximity, the hind foot being a 

 few inches in advance and the other being only a short distance be- 

 hind. The right fore foot is much bent at the knee and pastern, and 

 is the furthest fi-om the ground, the hind feet a little more elevated 

 than the left fore foot. The knee of the fore leg in advance 

 and the hock of the near hind leg are about sixty-two inches apart, 

 a striking difference from the ideal of tlie artist, or the position 

 Stonehenge noted through the race-glass at a distance. The top of 

 the withers and croup and the lower part of the muzzle touch the 

 line representing the height. 



IN THE AIR. 



The next picture, number three, the nose i.s on the line between 

 spaces nine and ten, equalizing the two pictures as to the distance 



