Horse and man : their mutual dependence and duties . others, and allsubservient to the great object of procuring food. No one part could be altered without changingall the others. To put an extreme case :—Supposethat the teeth of the horse were exchanged for thoseof the lion, the hoof would be useless, as it couldnot secure living prey. The stomach would be use-less, because it would be incapable of digesting rawflesh, and the teeth, from their structure, would beunable to masticate, and therefore could not chewgrass. Conversely, if the hoof were exchanged for lionspaws and talons, they would
Horse and man : their mutual dependence and duties . others, and allsubservient to the great object of procuring food. No one part could be altered without changingall the others. To put an extreme case :—Supposethat the teeth of the horse were exchanged for thoseof the lion, the hoof would be useless, as it couldnot secure living prey. The stomach would be use-less, because it would be incapable of digesting rawflesh, and the teeth, from their structure, would beunable to masticate, and therefore could not chewgrass. Conversely, if the hoof were exchanged for lionspaws and talons, they would be quite unsuited to thepastures in which the horse finds its food, and so theteeth would have to be altered. Now let us see what is the general structure ofthe horse, and what relationship is borne to it bythe hoof. The accompanying illustration representsthe bony framework of the horse. It was drawnfrom the skeleton of the celebrated racehorse SKELETON OF THE HORSE. Orlando, who won the Derby in 1844, the yearof the famous Eunning Eein As the details of this race may not be familiar tothe present generation, I will briefly mention them. B 2 4 H0E5E AXD MAN. Most people know that the Derby is intendedfor three-year-old animals, although a Frenchwriter does tell us that a certain horse won theDerby three times successively. Among the horseswhich were entered was one called Eunning that animal, a four-year- old horse called Mac-cabams was substituted under the same name, andwon the race. The fraud, however, was discovered,and great scandal arose in consequence. The resultwas that Haccabaeus was disqualified, and the racewas awarded to Orlando, who ran second. (Paren-thetically I take the opportunity of wishing thattwo years could be added to the age, a mile to thecourse, and considerable addition made to the weight.) The skeleton is in the Museum of the RoyalCollege of Surgeons, and, like many other figures inthis work, was drawn by the kind permission of Pr
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