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.ne horse would come up and eat the corn while the bridle 

 was put over his head. But the owner having deceived 

 the animal several times, by calling him when he had no 

 corn in the measure, the horse at length began to suspect 

 the design, and coming up one day, on being called, looked 

 into the measure, and seeing it empty, turned round, and 

 with his hind feet suddenly struck his master a blow which 

 killed him on the spot. 



The following is more pleasing. A young girl, the 

 daughter of a gentleman in Warwickshire, playing on the 

 banks of a river which runs through his grounds, had the 

 misfortune to fall into the water, and would in all proba- 

 bility have been drowned, had not a little pony, which had 

 long been kept in the family, plunged into the stream, and 

 brought the child safely ashore, without the slightest injury 

 beside the wetting. 



