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CHAPTER XIX. 
THE MUSTANG, OR WILD HORSE. 
*¢Round-hoof’d, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, 
Broad breast, full eye, small head and nostrils wide, 
High crest, short ears, straight legs, and passing strong, 
Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttock, tender hide— 
Look what a horse should have!” 
“Loox what a horse should have!’’ Willie of Avon being 
judge! and acknowledge, gentle sportsman, that the wild, 
rattling, poacher scamp had as sharp an eye for the parts 
of the noble animal on four legs, as he exhibited in his 
epiritual anatomy of. the animal on two. Can any of you 
‘seat that with all your modern breeding, in and out, crossings 
and improvements? Can even the Napoleon of the turf 
Limself suggest an addition or subtraction to or from this 
masterly summary of what the “ horse’ should be ?—not 
the draught-horse, the race-horse, the saddle-horse, the hunt- 
ing-horse, the trotter or the pacer!—but the nonpareil,— 
uniting in himself the nearest approach to the perfection of 
all these! 
“But,” says the gent., “deuce take it! where are you 
gcing to find such a horse, now you've got him described? 
li’s like shaking a basket of spring strawberries under the 
nose of a convalescing man, and then pleading the doctor 
on him, to tantalize us by dilating upon Shakspeare’s ideal, 
when such an animal has long since been crossed and trained 
out of being!” 
Very true, sir! very true! “ The horse,” with his exube- 
rance of power and unity of splendid traits, is ruled down 
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