306 HORSE AND MAN. 



CHAPTER 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 ' and 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 ' 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 



