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vicious, mean and sullen, and others again that 

 can be trusted to drive anywhere. Horses of 

 these various dispositions can usually be detected 

 by closely scrutinizing the head and noting the 

 different features which are herewith given you. 

 In the first place, horses generally with no 

 intelligence and a very sluggish disposition have 

 nostrils that are small and thick, the eyes are 

 sunk back into the head and very small, the ears 

 are long and tapering, and the hair very thick 

 and long on the inside, and the head between the 

 eyes and the ears is very narrow. This is a 

 horse of no intelligence and of a very sluggish 

 disposition. 



Horses that are nervous, intelligent, quick 

 and ready to obey your command, whenever giv- 

 en, you will find the head broad between the eyes 

 and ears, the eyes are large and full and stand 

 out very prominently, the ears are short and 

 furry on the inside and somewhat pointed on top, 

 and the nostrils are very large. Horses with the 

 above characteristics can safely be trusted any- 

 where, and very seldom need a whip or spur to 

 get them to move along. 



The most vicious and dangerous horses can 

 be readily recognized from the fact that the head 

 is bulged out between the eyes, with a sort of a 

 Roman peak running from the middle of the head 

 to the nostril. The head comes in on the top, very 

 narrow between the eyes, extremely small eyes, 

 sunken back toward the side of the head, and a 

 Roman neck. This kind of a horse must be very 

 closely watched, as they have some bad trait, such 

 as kicking, balking, a tendency to run away, 

 plunging, striking and the like. 



In casting around for a horse, and observing 

 the characteristics just enumerated, you will 



