Which is handsomer, a flat wall or a wall with a surface varied with columns and pilasters?
Well, then, when you take a horse, no man who loves art wants to see him smooth and even from stem to stern.

What you want is a varied surface--a little bit of hill and a little bit of valley; and you get it in a horse like mine.

Most horses are monotonous.

They tire on you.

But swell out the ribs, and there you have a horse that always pleases the eye and appeals to the finer sensibilities of the mind.
Besides, you are always perfectly certain that he has his full number of ribs, and that the man you buy him of is not keeping back a single, solitary bone.