Vulgar words in The Principles of Breeding - or, Glimpses at the Physiological Laws involved in the - Reproduction and Improvement of Domestic Animals (Page 1)
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Attention was first directed to this by the following circumstance, related by Sir Everard Home: A young chestnut mare, seven-eighths Arabian, belonging to the Earl of Morton, was covered in 1815 by a Quagga, which is a species of wild ass from Africa, and marked somewhat in the style of a Zebra.
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Morrison, Esq., of Bognie, had a fine Clydesdale mare which in 1843 was served by a Spanish ass and produced a mule.
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[6] It was long ago stated by Haller, that when a mare had a foal by an ass and afterwards another by a horse, the second offspring begotten by the horse nevertheless approached in character to a mule.
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The _mule_ is the progeny of the male ass and the mare; the _hinny_ that of the horse and the she ass.
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Mr. Orton says--"The mule, the produce of the male ass and mare, is essentially a _modified ass_: the ears are those of an ass somewhat shortened; the mane is that of the ass, erect; the tail is that of an ass; the skin and color are those of an ass somewhat modified; the legs are slender and the hoofs high, narrow and contracted, like those of an ass.
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In fact, in all these respects it is an ass somewhat modified.
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The hinny, on the other hand, the produce of the stallion and she ass, is essentially a _modified horse_.
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The body and barrel, however, of the hinny are flat and narrow, in which it differs from the horse and resembles the she ass.
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Youatt says that "Mr. Culley, although an excellent judge of cattle, formed a very erroneous opinion of the Herefords when he pronounced them to be nothing but a mixture of the Welsh with a bastard race of Long Horns.