no doubt as to find a large man upwards of six feet 

 in height of a perfect and Adam-Hke form. When 

 found of course such horses would be more valuable, 

 but from the very great difficulty in finding them it 

 will be as well to take a statue supposed to represent 

 a smaller size. " Beauty consists in proportion." Well ; 

 there exists a book that I wrote a quarter of a century 

 ago called " The Griffin's Aide-de-Camp," in which the 

 proper form and shape of a horse are given, and the 

 description, not the woodcuts, will be found to corres- 

 pond with this statue. If any reader will be kind enough 

 to point out any error in the form there described the 

 author will be happy to send him half a sovereign for 

 the information, or will bet him half a sovereign he is 

 mistaken, so anxious is he to have a correct form 

 acknowledged which all can refer to. In that descrip- 

 tion, a great part of the language of which was copied 

 from some of the most celebrated professional writers, 

 it is stated " The forelegs should stand straight, mode- 

 rately broad at the chest, gradually approaching each 

 other to the fetlock, and be free from all lumps or bumps, 

 or bony excrescences whatever; and as to windgalls, that 

 they are a most annoying eye-sore." With regard to 

 the feet, a good sound foot with open heels and wide 

 frog is one of the first things that ought to be looked 

 to. Well ; go to Tattersall's every week for the year 



