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 attend to it. The grand committee it is to be hoped 



Take a horse with straight unblemished legs and 

 then break one by a blow. Or, take a horse with two 

 good eyes and then poke one out, the progeny would 

 not suffer the slightest detriment from those acci- 

 dents ; but it would be a very different affair if the 

 leg had been crooked, or spavined, or otherwise injured 

 by over-work, or the eye had been lost by disease 

 from hot and ill- ventilated stables. In these last 

 cases there would be a constitutional taint, and the 

 sire or dam would have so depreciated in value, as 

 to be instantly rejected by any man, whose taste was 

 not vitiated from having kept such company. Did 

 everybody know that before ? Well, then, if Parlia- 



* Lord Byron wrote : — " Even to the delicacy of their hand 

 there was resemblance, such as true blood wears." A pretty hand 

 and foot in either sex is no doubt to be envied, but he had an equal 

 admiration for beauty of countenance, and due proportion of form ; 

 And for either male or female to be thorowjlibj good looking and 

 elegant, every point must no doubt be perfect. In these days of 

 education, however, a fine, fresh, free -going understanding will be 

 accepted as the most useful blood for either man or horse. 



He also wrote : — That " the Egyptians worshipped an onion for 

 a God." If any unbelieving English choose to give their more 

 substantial gold in exchange for onions, they might, at least, imitate 

 the Egyptian good taste in not publicly allowing their horses to 

 carry them about their ancles. 



