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church. The gentleman who communicated the 

 foregoing 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 gray mare 

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

 for some years. On one occasion, owing to a fall, he could 

 not go to meeting, and on Sunday morning, as the time for 

 meeting approached, the horse, in a lot near the house, 

 manifested great uneasiness, and when the second bell 

 struck she leaped over the fence and trotted quietly to 

 church, stopping at her usual hitching-place, under an old 

 elm tree, until the close of the service, when the faithful 

 animal returned safely to the house. 



When we remember that such exhibitions of 

 intelligence occur continually where the animals 

 have received no training on the subjects to 

 which they relate, it seems certain that they are 

 the result of a mental process which strongly 

 resembles thought, and we would expect, from 

 patient culture, displays of intelligence greatly 

 in advance of those ordinarily taking place. 

 Such an expectation is justified by the results 

 which have followed training when directed to 



