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hands and inches, it must be always remem- 

 bered, is no criterion of ability to carry 

 weight at high pressure, any more than 

 volume of flesh is, though it is the com- 

 monest of errors to suppose this. As a 





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MESAOUD. 

 Property of Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Esq. 



matter of fact, in the hunting field in a long 

 or very quick run you often see overgrown 

 brutes, soft as they are big, for which the 

 owners have given perhaps well over a 

 hundred guineas, stopping and blowing and 

 tumbling about, while some little well-bred 



