This time he made no comparison of horses but went directly to an ugly-headed roan, long of leg, vicious of eye, thin-shouldered, and with hips that slanted sharply down.

No one with a knowledge of fine horse-flesh could have looked on this brute without aversion.

It did not have even size in its favour.

A wild, free spirit, perhaps, might be the reason; but the animal stood with hanging head and pendant lower lip.

One eye was closed and the other only half opened.