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guided by bit or bridle, nor by a significant bearing down of a rider s saddle. The owner 

 and teacher stands remote from them, and by word of mouth calls upon them indi 

 vidually and collectively to go and do certain acts that he has taught them. &quot;When the 

 school of animals enters the arena, he singles out different ones by their distinguishing name 

 and bids such go and salute the audience. In response to such command the horse specified 

 leaves his companions, and, coming forward to the &quot;. foot-lights,&quot; bows to the assemblage. He 

 asks one of the school to &quot;go and open a desk and bring him a handkerchief.&quot; Another he 

 commands to take a sponge and rub out some figures on a black board. Another he 

 commands &quot;to march,&quot; &quot; to trot,&quot; &quot;to run,&quot; and by such a simple command the gait changes 

 simultaneously with the request. Another he orders to describe a figure &quot; 8 &quot; by the movement 

 of his body, and calls upon the audience to say whether he shall describe it by commencing 

 at the right or the left, and as the voice from the audience determines so is it. 



He orders four of his horses to go and stand side by side for a game of &quot;leap-frog,&quot; 

 and then calls upon one of the audience to nominate some other horse that shall run and leap 

 over all four of them. So soon as one of the horses hears his own name called by some 

 person in the audience, just as soon does the animal named catch the spirit of the &quot; turf,&quot; and 

 with an exciting impetuosity he wildly and gladly runs, and with a leap and a bound he 

 clears all four animals amidst the plaudits of the multitude. It is amusing to see the cocked 

 ears of all the horses as they wait the mention of their names. The teacher of this school 

 of animals took a large Geneva music-box, and as soon as it was wound up, these horses 

 grouped themselves around him and endeavored to get their heads into his lap. and when self- 

 posed they listened with wrapt attention. 



An immense &quot;see-saw&quot; was arranged in the arena, and at the word of command the 

 horse nominated went up the plank, and when in the middle of it, he stood for five minutes 

 &quot; see-sawing &quot; that plank to the wonder and amusement of every beholder. While thus 

 standing and balancing that huge plank the owner called the name of another horse, and at 

 once the last named got upon the same plank, and the two horses at the extreme ends of 

 that plank stood and &quot;see-sawed&quot; as perfectly and as nonchalantly as two men could. The 

 next scene was very exciting. The owner arrayed himself in a military uniform, and at 

 a bugle-call twelve horses entered, wearing a crimson ribbon around their barrels, and entered 

 with a soldierly step. They at once arranged themselves into a military line and &quot;dressed &quot; 

 right or left pursuant to command. The evolutions, and marchings, and counter-marchings of 

 these quadruped-soldiers, in obedience to oral requirement, were indescribably wonderful and 

 fascinating. They marched with perfect precision in a body. They marched in platoons. 

 They marched in ever- varying sections. They filed &quot; right &quot; and they filed &quot; left,&quot; they formed 

 a hollow square, and went through the tactics of a military drill with an exactitude that baffles 

 description. 



But the final scene was the climax of all. It was a &quot; horse court.&quot; One of the horses 

 was indicted for &quot;murder.&quot; The bell rang. The curtain rose and &quot; the court-room &quot; was 

 before you. Six horses were in the &quot;jury-box.&quot; The horse charged with murder was in the 

 prisoner s dock, and was fastened with chains. The judge s bench was a lofty structure, and 

 looked like an old-fashioned New England pulpit. In it sat a sober-visaged donkey, with 

 flamboyant ears, looking every inch a judge. The owner charged the jurors and ordered 

 them to retire. At once these educated horses withdrew, but soon afterwards came back into 

 court, and once again entered &quot; the jury-box.&quot; The teacher, in behalf of the long-eared judge, 

 now called for a verdict, and immediately thereafter one of the number (the foreman) held up 

 in his teeth a placard, on which was printed &quot;Not Guilty.&quot; This placard was handed from 

 &quot;jury-horse&quot; to &quot;jury-horse,&quot; and each one received it in his teeth and held it up for public 

 inspection. The owner then commanded that the prisoner be released, and at that word another 

 horse, acting as &quot; Sheriff,&quot; went up, and with his teeth unfastened the chains, and the prisoner 



