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HE following hippic folk-wisdom I have got from old people in the parish, and they tell me they had it from old folks, so that its age cannot be less than a century:—

Another version is:—

A third version is:—

A fourth version is:—

There are nine points in a good horse. You will find three of them in a fox, three in a hare, and three in a woman. Like the fox he must be deep-ribbit, straight-backit, and bushy-tailt; like the hare, clean-limbt, quick-eet, and prick-luggit; and like a woman, weel-hippit, weel-breastit, and easy-mountit.