' As I said,
there is another aspect, and a much more important one, and that is,
the relations of the various animals to one another. The Horse is a
very well-defined matter-of-fact sort of animal, and we are all pretty
familiar with its structure. I dare say it may have struck you, that
it resembles very much no other member of the animal kingdom, except
perhaps the Zebra or the Ass. But let me ask you to look along these
diagrams. Here is the skeleton of the Horse, and here the skeleton of
the Dog. You will notice that we have in the Horse a skull, a backbone
and ribs, shoulder-blades and haunch-bones. In the fore-limb, one
upper arm-bone, two fore arm-bones, wrist-bones (wrongly called knee),
and middle hand-bones, ending in the three bones of a finger, the last
of which is sheathed in the horny hoof of the fore-foot: in the
hind-limb, one thigh-bone, two leg-bones, anklebones, and middle
foot-bones, ending in the three bones of a toe, the last of which is
encased in the hoof of the hind-foot.
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