The Horse, as Comrade and Friend 



kangaroo, with a suitable pouch, actually 

 carried its young in its arms. Subsequent 

 expansion of the brain-pan of the male enabled 

 him to perceive that danger to the race lay in 

 reposing absolute reliance upon the permanent 

 continuance of a freakish female custom, so 

 with an expenditure of much grey brain- 

 matter, and with many headaches, he gradually 

 and in succession invented houses, bassinettes, 

 baby foods, nurse-girls, policemen and peram- 

 bulators. It is thus that the human race has 

 continued to this day — little stimuli acting 

 on a range of brain power sufficiently extended 

 and attuned to gather them in. 



The prehistoric dog was a small animal like 

 a jackal, gregarious, wdthout much strength 

 or courage, and no attacker except of small 

 things and dead carcases ; but his success in 

 hiding his mate and her young sufficed for the 

 long impotence of the puppies. Tlie wild 

 boar, with his tusks, is a ferocious and courage- 

 ous beast, and the wild sow is no poltroon. 

 As the element of effective protection comes in, 

 the semi-comatose period of the young shortens. 

 The young pigs can run well in a very few 

 days. Wild cattle, and their cousins the 

 buffaloes, live in their herds, and both have 

 the habit, when danger appears, of forming a 

 circle, horns outwards, with the calves in the 

 middle. It takes several days before a calf 

 can move quickly. But the horse has no such 



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