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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 486

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nail for a hoof. The lower half of the horses fore leg isreally a gigantic hand with only the middlefinger and a piece out of the middle of thepalm, while the corresponding part of his hindleg is a big, single-toed foot. But the cow hastwo fingers on her hand—the third and fourth.So has the camel;… … A MODEL OF THE LITTLE KOUR-TOED HORSE. This is one of the earliest and smallest horses whose bones have been found. It was about the size of a fox terrier,which indeed it resembles strongly in the shape of its legs and feet. One of the strange things about feet is that,although no quadruped has…

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