32 DUN AND BAY 



also fertile. If man became extinct, the 

 steppes and prairies would breed Duns, and 

 gradually kill out the other types. 



From the fierce dry heat of the Gobi Desert 

 to the utmost rigors of Siberian cold, the Dun 

 will thrive wherever there is grass. His coat 

 is warm and cool for any climate, greasy 

 enough to shed rain, and proof against every 

 weather except wet driving snow or a strong 

 gale. Through the longest winters he keeps 

 alive by grubbing through the snow to get at 

 grass. The droughts of summer may so in- 

 crease the journey between food and water 

 that he gets very little time for rest, but some- 

 how he manages to pull through, the last of all 

 horses to yield to difficulties. Lacking the 

 speed and beauty of the Bay, he lives where the 

 Bay will die. In danger or difficulty the Bay 

 is a fool in a panic, while the Dun keeps cool, 

 reasons, and uses common sense with a strong, 

 hearty valour. One would select the Bay for 

 pleasure, but the Dun for serious work under 

 the saddle, for road endurance, for long and 

 rapid marches, and all that makes mounted 

 troops of value in campaigns. 



Just as the working man may be rendered 

 irritable and even vicious by unfair treatment 

 in our social life, the working horse is made 



