Excerpt from The Perfect Horse: How to Know Him, How to Breed Him, How to Train Him, How to Shoe Him, How to Drive Him The last of the four kinds of temperament is the lym phatic. A horse with this temperamental organization is to be shunned. He will be large in the abdomen, lazy, and inclined to lay on useless fat. He will be sluggish, slow - moving, and shambling in his gait; a stumbler, and kicker-up of dust; a heavy, eshy animal, - more of a pig than a horse. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."