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reader the fact of certain patterns on the horse's skin being inti- 

 mately related to its locomotive life which, I hope I may assume, has 

 been sufficiently demonstrated in this chapter. A pedometer is 

 one of those works of men devised for his physical and mental 

 advancement which are marked by a precision as well as purpose 

 often absent from Nature's handiwoik. Just as a pedestrian, 

 cyclist, or motorist carries with him his pedometer and tells you 

 with some pride the number of miles he has " done " in a day or 

 hour, so the horse displays urbe et orbi his rougher registers of the 

 locomotive triumphs of his ancestors and himself, and these I call 

 Animal Pedometers by way of metaphor, and patterns by way of 

 fact. 



The less striking and rarer patterns of the horse's hair have 

 been fully described elsewhere, 1 and it would serve no useful end 

 to refer to them at length, nor to multiply proofs of the position 

 here maintained. 



1 Direction of Hair in Animals and Man. 



