wee! Rast So ee eae es we ie “ 
Sa eee eae “i 
Vil. 
CART HORSES. 
VERYBODY who cares for the beautiful or the 
picturesque, whether or not he be touched by 
the true hippic passion, must take an interest in cart 
horses. They are attractive and pleasant to look 
upon merely as animals, quite apart from the fact 
that you can put bits in their mouths, and cause 
them to expend their strength at the will and in 
the service of man. The generic difference in this 
respect between cart horses and racers is well indi- 
cated by Mr. Hamerton. 
“The race horse,” he says, “has the charms of a 
tail coat, of a trained pear tree, of all such superfine 
results of human ingenuity, but he has lost the glory 
of nature. Look at his straight neck, at the way 
he holds his head, at his eager, anxious eye, often 
