THEIR FEED AND THEIR FEET. 



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greatly; his skin is thin and his blood hot. In Fig. 6 

 we have a specimen of the heavy, dull, stupid horse ; 

 the one that ' any one can drive,' but is rarely driven 

 off a walk, or a very sluggish infrequent ' lope.' He's 

 the horse to try the patience of a saint, when a little 

 behind time for the train. Fig. 7 requires an excep- 

 tionally good driver to manage him; he must be 

 watched or some dangerous trick of his may suddenly 



Fig. 7. — Very Excitable and Incorrigible. 



astonish his owner. He'll nab the unwary bystander, 

 on the shoulder, or perhaps seem disposed to make a 

 brief luncheon of his hat. He has a wild-looking eye, 

 and the head-lock falls in an unsteady corkscrew way 

 down over his forehead, in itself suggestive of un- 

 trustworthiness. Compare Figs. 1 or 4 with Figs. 2, 

 5, 6, and 7, and see how wide the differences of char- 

 acter shown even by engravings. 



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