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soon learned to ride him; and whenever I led Rarus 

 out to show him to the public, Jim invariably knew 

 what it meant, and enhanced the value of the per- 

 formance by the manner m which he would get on the 

 horse's back. On these occasions the horse was shown 

 to halter, and Jimmy, who learned to distinguish such 

 events from those in which the sulky was used, would 

 follow Dave and Earus out on the quarter stretch ; 

 and then when the halt was made in front of the grand 

 stand, Dave would stoop down, and in a flash Jimmy 

 would jump on his back, run up his shoulder, from 

 there leap on the horse's back, and there he would 

 stand, his head high in the air and his tail out stiff 

 behind, barking furiously at the people. He seemed 

 to know that he was as much a part of the show as 

 the horse, and apparently took great delight in attract- 

 ing attention to himself/* 



When Earns was sold to Mr. Bonner, Splan sent 

 Jimmy with the horse, rightly judging that it would 

 be cruel to separate them. But in Mr. Bonner's stable 

 there was already a bull-terrier in charge, and one day 

 when, for some real or fancied affront, the small dog 

 attacked the larger one, the latter took Jimmy by the 

 neck and was fast killing him ; but Karus heard his 

 outcries, and perceiving that his little friend was in 

 danger and distress, pulled back on the halter till it 

 broke, rushed out of his stall, and would have made 

 short work with the bull-terrier had he not been re- 

 strained by the grooms. 



The examples which I have cited prove that horses 

 are far more capable of attaching themselves to other 

 animals, man included, than is commonly supposed; 

 for neither Dexter nor Goldsmith Maid nor Barus 



