Show the white of perhaps the biggest horse in the world is the white horse of berkshire england it is a figure of 0 yards long iong cut in the tha side 0 of a hill A long way off it looks as though drawn in chalk lines but the outlines are really deep ditches in the soil kept kep t clean and tree free from grass by the people who take great pride in it the ditches are six yards wide and two feet deep the eye of the horse is four feet across and the tha ear Is fifteen yards long it can be seen for sixteen miles when the time comes to clear out the ditches the people make a kind of picnic of it and play all sorts of rustic games who made the white horse or what tor for is not cot known for certain though king alfred has been mentioned in connection with it it Is certainly very old |