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dote, displaying at once the fidelity and sagacity of the 

 horse : — " Riding home through a forest one very dark 

 night, a friend of his had the misfortune to run against 

 an opposing branch of a tree ; this accident stunned 

 him, and he fell. The horse returned to the house he 

 had left, and all the inmates having retired to bed, con- 

 tinued to paw at the door till one of them rose, and 

 wondering at this circumstance, determined to follow 

 the footsteps of the horse ; and when he arrived at the 

 spot discovered the object of the noble animal's solici- 

 tude, and immediately resorted to the necessary means 

 to effect a restoration and the recovery of the gentle- 

 man who had been so unfortunately situated, and who 

 would probably have died but for this speedy assis- 

 tance." 



In Cunningham's account of New South Wales, he 

 says — " A friend of mine in the habit of riding a good 

 deal, found that whenever he approached a gully liis 

 sagacious horse invariably opposed his wishes to cross 

 at the particular spot he had been accustomed to, al- 

 ways endeavouring to lead off to another part of the 

 gully, where no passage was known to exist by his 

 rider. Resolving to see whither the cunning rogue 

 would go, he gave him the rein, and soon found him- 

 self carried over the gully by a route he had never 

 before followed. Still, however, thinking that the 

 former way was the nearest, he was curious enough to 

 have both measured, when he found the horse's judg- 

 ment correct, that way being the nearest by several 

 hundred yards." 



One remarkable instance of recollection of injury 

 and an attempt to revenge it, is, however, to be found 

 in a work by D. RoUe, Esq., of Torrington, in Devon- 

 shire. A baronet, one of whose hunters never tired in 

 the longest chase, once encouraged the cruel thought 



