Reason or Instinct. Ill 



statesmen, and doubtless, had the circus been at Manchester, 

 Mr. Moke's heels would have gone up at the mention of 

 Lord Beaconsfield, and he would have nodded at Mr. 

 Bright's name. 



And now about other horses : observe the intelligence of 

 the contractors' horses, which are as colossal as the navvies 

 are. The navvies call them names which would look bad in 

 the " Sunday Reader ; " but there is great sympathy 

 between the Herculean bipeds and the great strong horses ; 

 they go mostly by word of command, and you seldom see a 

 navvy hard with a horse, which moves apparently at the 

 roughly expressed word, and drags the enormous load of 

 earth to the top of the embankment, and turns it on the 

 second, and clears the truck, and runs round just in time to 

 avoid his hind legs being smashed when they are " tipping.'' 

 Or look at the race-horse in a training stable under the 

 command of an imp of a boy, whom he could annihilate, and 

 probably he would " savage " you or me if we went near 

 him. It is curious to hear these little fellows, when a horse 

 threatens to kick, rate him with his childish voice, and give 

 him a sharp smack on his hind quarters, and to watch the 

 quiet way in which the horse will let him take up its hind 

 leg and wash it, and when he has done will put its head 

 round and expect the little fellow to make it all up again. 

 I always try to fancy what one of these lad's feelings must 

 be when he sees his favourite coming along stride by stride 

 to the front in a Derby or Leger, and wonder that he does 

 not go mad. 



Perhaps the finest draught horses in London are those 

 which occupy the medium between the carriage horse and 

 the cart horse, in the large covered tradesmen's carts, rail- 

 way carts, (fee, which take loads along at a steady trot ; and 

 especially the dray horses in Liverpool, which draw goods 

 up and down hill to the docks. These are bred to a great 



