ON COLOUR. 261 



believe are almost universally of that 

 colour. Of late years in the streets of 

 Paris it has been less predominant, though 

 when I first visited that city it was the 

 prevailing colour in cabs and omnibuses. 

 At that time, too, there was a large 

 proportion of greys among the London 

 omnibus horses, the ranks of which were 

 then largely recruited from. Elanders and 

 other parts of the Continent. 



A blue or steel roan, or a red roan or 

 " strawberry " colour, looks handsome in har- 

 ness, and many very smart cobs and ponies 

 are of this colour ; but it is not a 

 "breedy" one, being derived chiefly from 

 the Norfolk trotting blood. It used also 

 to be a prevalent cart-horse colour, though 

 it is seldom now found among pedigree 

 Shire stock, while I do not remember ever 

 seeing a roan Clydesdale. 



Any " bizarre " colour, such as pie-bald, 

 skew-bald, or spotted grey {the best pony 



