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HEAD AND NECK 



me that Tristan's temper had been spoiled by bad usage 

 when he was a yearhng 



Front View of Face. — Good width of forehead between 

 the eyes (Fig 248) indicates, as a rule, free breathing power 

 and strong muscles of mastication, for the bones of that 

 part [frontal boms) form a portion of the roof of the cavities 

 through which air enters on its way to the lungs, and gives 



Fig 240 —Mr LEFLVRii'b Tivisi'VN. 

 {Drawn fro?ji aphotogr aph ) 



attachment to a powerful muscle which aids in closing the 

 jaws, and which is fixed in the large depression that is just 

 above the eye. Good width between the eyes is generally 

 regarded as a sign of intelligence and of a generous dis- 

 position ; and it may indicate large capacity of brain, by 

 reason of the frontal bone forming a portion of the covering 

 of that organ. I shall refer, under the next heading, to the 

 subject of the desirability, or otherwise, of a large brain in 

 the horse. 



