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a long time, without trying to take lier, leaving her the corn on 

 the ground. IN'ext, I induced her to eat the corn while I held it 

 still leaving her free. Finally I persuaded her to follow me, and 

 now she will come trotting half a mile at my whistle, leaping 

 ditches, fording brooks, in the darkness and rain, or in impene- 

 trable fog. She follows me like a dog to the stable and I admin- 

 ister the corn there. But it is a bargain ; she knowingly sells 

 her liberty for the corn. The experiment of reducing the re- 

 ward to test her behavior having been tried, she ceased to obey 

 the whistle and resumed her former habits ; but the full and due 

 quantity having been restored, she yielded her liberty again 

 without resistance, and since then she is not to be cheated." 



A horse which is regularly used for attending church, will, 

 fi'om its own observation, learn to recognize the Sabbath and un- 

 derstand the meaning of the church bells. The following inter- 

 esting illustration of this fact is authenticated bj^ the Hartford 

 Post: 



^' A x>air of horses that had been used during the week in 

 team-work to Springfield, on Sunday were harnessed and driven 

 to the door unhitched, and, the family being rather tardy that 

 morning, as soon as the second bell began to ring the horses 

 started off alone, and with their usual Sunda}^ motion went up in 

 front of the church, when, after waiting the usual time, they 

 quietly went around under the horse-shed.'' 



Here the horses plainly understood the distinction between that 

 day and the six previous ones when thej^ had been driven to 

 Springfield, else they would have gone, after starting, to where 

 they had been going through the week ; thej^ also evidently un- 

 derstood that at tlie ringing of the second bell it was time to 

 start for church. The gentleman who communicated the fore- 

 going adds an instance which occurred in his own family : 



''The father of the writer, owing to increasing infirmities, 

 rode alone to meeting, half a mile, driving an old grey mare 

 twenty years old, and had not failed of going every Sabbath fur 

 some years. On one occasion, owing to a fall, he could not go to 

 meeting, and on Sunday morning, as the time for meeting ap- 

 proached, the horse, in a lot near the house, manifested great 



