. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 302 NATURAL niSrORl is a '.ioiic teiTiicil the siiliut. These splints ai'c in fact rudimeulary metacarpal and metatarsal iionei. The ciuinon bones run in a direction vertically downwards, and in the best possible manner for Kuppoi-ting a heavy weight, and in addition the bones are composed of extraordinarily hard and dense material, although to all appearance they are comparatively slender. Altogether, the object looked for is attained—namely, strength with symmetry. The cannon or shank bone proceeds down- wards until it reaches a bone kno
. Cassell's natural history. Animals; Animal behavior. 302 NATURAL niSrORl is a '.ioiic teiTiicil the siiliut. These splints ai'c in fact rudimeulary metacarpal and metatarsal iionei. The ciuinon bones run in a direction vertically downwards, and in the best possible manner for Kuppoi-ting a heavy weight, and in addition the bones are composed of extraordinarily hard and dense material, although to all appearance they are comparatively slender. Altogether, the object looked for is attained—namely, strength with symmetry. The cannon or shank bone proceeds down- wards until it reaches a bone knowii as the greater pastern, and between these two are also two little bones, termed the sesamoids : this portion of the leg is called the fetlock. The sesamoid bones are attached to the back of tlie cannon bone, and are so arranged as to the surface of the joint, and also forming a pulley for the passage of the back tendons. The pastern bone rests immediately >ipon a bone termed the little pastern or coronet, the former bone being placed obliquely downwards and forwards, being an admirable provision against concussion. It is here, in proportion to the oblique. SKELETON 01' HORSE. position in whii.}i this bone is placed, the horseman finds either a springy or jolting action in the Horse he rides. The little pastern or coronet rests upon a bone known as the coffin.' (The three bones— viz., the greater pastern, the little and the coffin bone—are really nothing more nor less than three phalanges, the three together being analogous to the human finger or toe.) It is situated partly witiiin anil partly without the hoof, and its direction, like the greater pastern, is downwards and forvi^ards, and it is this bone -which forms the pivot or centre of motion. The last bone of the foot, and immediately below the little pastern, as before stated, Ls the coflin or i)odal bone. This bone is strongly imbedded in the hoof, and is convex in front, rounded at the sides, and sl
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