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clouds, paw the moon, and dance, with pig 

 jumping or even a Uttle bucking after break- 

 fast, are signals of youth, joy and good fellow- 

 ship. 



Then one may watch the play of the nostrils 

 making a thousand comments on scents borne 

 in the air, while the ears will point and quiver 

 to all sorts of sounds beyond man's hearing. 

 The mood will change from sober thoughtful- 

 ness in the shadow of clouds or trees, to sheer 

 intoxication of delight with sparkhng frost, 

 dew on the flowers, sunshine in the skies. No 

 creature on earth expresses feeling w^ith sweeter 

 quickness than a happy horse. 



(13) NuzzUng is sometimes an appeal for 

 help, more often an expression of loving 

 sympath3^ 



(14) Nothing so far explains how a couple of 

 horses will put their heads together, touch 

 nostrils, and in a second come to some sort of 

 mutual underst-anding, which leads to immedi- 

 ate concerted action such as the bolting of a 

 team. In one or tw^o cases I am not sure that 

 the nostrils actually touched. In many cases 

 w^hen I saw nostrils rubbed together or the 

 beard bristles in contact, no sound was made 

 within the compass of my hearing. Neither 

 were there such lip movements as would be 



