306 HORSE AND MAN. 



CHAPTEK XVII. 



The horse and the locomotive again * Vice ' in horses and its invariable 

 cause Mayhew's opinion Vice in cavalry horses The soldier and 

 the < irreclaimable ' savage New mode of treatment Apparent 

 failure and ultimate success A, relapse when in strange hands 

 Another ' irreclaimable ' savage Story of ' Fly,' ' The Baroness,' 

 and ' War Eagle,' all three being New Zealand horses The horse's 

 capacity for affection Its peculiar love for man The horse a 

 gregarious animal Bulgarian horses ' Spoiled ' horses The horse's 

 desire to obey man A circus horse Gilpin redivivus Cavalry 

 horses and their habits of obedience The old horse at a review 

 Disbanded horses in a thunderstorm The 14th Hussars at the Cape 

 Escape of their horses An amateur review without officers 

 Muster of loose and wounded horses after battle Mr. Luck's horse 

 Imprisoned in winter Endurance of the horse ' Sam ' arid his tricks. 



THROUGHOUT this work comparisons have been drawn 

 between the horse and the locomotive engine. It is 

 worthy of notice that whereas the driver of an 

 engine comes to look upon it as a living creature, 

 always talks of it as 4 she,' and treats it as if it 

 were possessed of feeling and intelligence, too many 

 drivers or managers of horses look upon them as 

 machines which can only be made to work by hard 

 words and harder blows. 



They think or, rather, they assume, as the 

 ignorant always do in lieu of thinking that horses 



