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the motto, " The style of a man may be known by his 

 horse." Many persons who have possessed horses 

 of a somewhat unsightly appearance have murmured 

 out that they could not comprehend the meaning 

 of the phrase. Indeed ! persons who have the 

 bad taste to mount such deformities cannot be 

 given credit for much comprehension, though I 

 think in this case they comprehended it only too well, 

 but could not bear the fact being brought so 

 prominently to their view. Perhaps they will be 

 equally unable to comprehend the drawings prefixed 

 to these letters. Those who have good taste however 

 will comprehend them at a glance, yet it has been stated 

 again lately that three and four-year-olds, having 

 been tried and found deficient in speed, with barrels 

 resembling a tucked up camel, and gummy ancles 

 overladen with marrowfats^ and heels somewhat the 

 shape of a jargonelle pear, will do all very well for 

 ordinary riding. Who are the riders that these will 

 do for ? As a poor man I may be compelled to wear 

 threadbare clothes occasionally darned, but I would 

 prefer doing that rather than be seen to mount any 

 cast off weeds with such irritating eye-sores as these, fit 

 in appearance for nothing but cab-work, and a cruelty 

 to put them to that. And all persons of every class 

 who desire the improvement of the breed of horses, in 



