INSTANCES OF "HORSE SENSE" 45 



finished me, and I completed my journey on 

 foot. But take a yearling out now, or take 

 any country horse that has never seen a 

 motor-car upon our roads before. He does 

 not pay the slightest attention to them, pro- 

 vided he has been associating with horses 

 which have already seen motor-cars in action. 

 In other words, their actions leave no room to 

 doubt but that horses have some way of talk- 

 ing to and teaching each other. I can well 

 imagine the mare telling her foals that when 

 they go on the roads they will see wonderful 

 cars that move without the aid of horses, but 

 although noisy and emitting a most unpleasant 

 odour, she, we may be sure, tells them that 

 these things are harmless. I can remember, 

 too, although that is a long time ago now, in 

 the days of the old high bicycle, horses often 

 took fright at bicycles, and especially at 

 tricycles. They hardly look upon them now, 

 and the last horse I have seen seriously 

 alarmed at a motor-driven means of loco- 

 motion was out at Sandyford, where the 

 thoroughbreds took serious alarm at the fly- 



