THE SUFFOLK PUNCH-HORSE* 
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THE SUFFOLK PUNCH-HORSE. 
This hardy and active breed has now become nearly ex¬ 
tinct. They are rather under sixteen hands in height, and 
their colour chestnut or sorrel. Their heads are rather 
large and coarse ; their ears being too long and placed too 
distant from each other for modern taste. The body is 
deep, capacious, and compact; the shoulders wide and thick 
at top, and somewhat low, with the rump more elevated than 
the shoulder, which it is supposed enables them to throw 
much of their weight, into the collar. They are large and 
strong in the quarters, full in the flanks, flat and short 
in the legs, with short pasterns. 
In the “ Sportsman’s Repository ” we are told that “ they 
were the only race of horses which would collectively draw 
repeated dead pulls, namely, draw pull after pull, and down 
upon their knees, against a tree, or any body which they 
felt could not be moved, to the time of Jup, Ji! ! and 
the crack of the whip, (once familiar, but abominable 
sounds, which even now vibrate on our auditory nerves) as 
long as nature supplied the power, and would renew the 
same exertions to the end of the chapter.” 
The hideous yelling of most carters and farm servants, 
which is still prevalent when driving horses, not only in this 
country, but also on the continent, is a barbarous custom; 
for I have known many instances where gentlemen subdued 
this practice in their servants, and the most gentle and tem¬ 
perate accents were found to succeed better than the fright¬ 
ful and thundering exclamations in general use. Every 
possible means should be used by those who have either 
influence or power over that class of men, to abolish this 
noisy and useless practice, which not only stuns the noor. 
