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bable tliat the scythe-axled cars, which at 

 first spread terror and devastation, equal to 

 that caused by the elephants of Pyrrhus, in 

 the ranks of the invading Eoman legions, 

 were horsed by these sturdy little creatures, 

 which, though too small to carry armed men, 

 were by their strength and spirit well adapted 

 to this method of warfare; wherefore I 

 imagine that Mr. Thorney croft is incorrect 

 in horsing Boadicea's war-chariot with a pair 

 of fairly good-looking landau horses, which, 

 as a critic lately suggested, would fetch £60 

 apiece at Tattersall's to-day ; and that the 

 mount of the early British hunter, an ad- 

 mirable statuette by Boehm erected by General 

 Pitt-Rivers in the Larmer pleasure-grounds, 

 which he so generously maintains for the 

 public benefit near his seat in Wiltshire, 

 more accurately represents the horse of the 

 period. This is a beautifully modelled group 

 of a skin-clad Briton mounted on a sturdy, 

 well-shaped pony — " round-hoofed, short- 



