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CHAPTER III. 



THE HORSE. 



The horse has been the servant of man for such 

 a long- time that we are hable to forg-et that he 

 once had an independent existence and managed 

 his own affairs without our help ; yet, if we ex- 

 amine the qualities which bring him into associa- 

 tion with us, we shall find that man has had but 

 little to do with their development, and nothing 

 whatever to do with their origin. For instance, 

 we value the horse chiefly for his speed and 

 endurance, yet had it not been for the chief 

 ancestor of our faithful friend the dog, the grim 

 grey wolf of Europe and Asia with his perpetual 

 hunger and untiring gallop, the wild horses 

 which, in ancient times, swarmed over nearly all 

 the great plains of the world, and from which 

 all our modern steeds have sprung, would never 



