The book Next to the Ground; Chronicles of a Countryside was written by author Mcculloch-Williams, Martha, B. Ca. 1857 Here you can read free online of Next to the Ground; Chronicles of a Countryside book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is Next to the Ground; Chronicles of a Countryside a good or bad book?
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Roan is a coat the Arabs do not know. It is held to be a sign of much mixed blood, yet is plenty among English thoroughbreds, and not unknown, though unfavored, among Ameri- The Horse 261 can blood stock. Gray horses, even the dark- est iron-grays and silver-roans, become white with advancing years, or else grow flea-bitten all over. Flea-bites, be it understood, are little reddish-black spots sprinkled thickly through the white coat. Like a hog's, a horse's epidermis is colored to match the ha...irs growing on it. The colored skin extending underneath white hairs often makes shaded edges to the white marks. A white star is a lucky mark, so is one white hind foot. A star and snip prefigures speed and kindliness. A violent blaze, or a skewbald, especially upon a long Roman-nosed head, bids you be- ware. A symmetrical blaze along with a tapering muzzle, is a good mark. The very worst mark of all is four white feet. If the four white feet run up to the knees in white stockings, and are backed up by great height, very high withers, and a bald white face, they are the mark of Turcoman blood.
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