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clouds, paw the moon, and dance, with pig 

 jumping or even a Uttle bucking after break- 

 fast, are signals of youth, joy and good fellow- 

 ship. 



Then one may watch the play of the nostrils 

 making a thousand comments on scents borne 

 in the air, while the ears will point and quiver 

 to all sorts of sounds beyond man's hearing. 

 The mood will change from sober thoughtful- 

 ness in the shadow of clouds or trees, to sheer 

 intoxication of dehght with sparkling frost, 

 dew on the flowers, sunshine in the skies. No 

 creature on earth expresses feeling with sweeter 

 quickness than a happy horse. 



(13) Nuzzling is sometimes an appeal for 

 help, more often an expression of loving 

 sympathy. 



. (14) Nothing so far explains how a couple of 

 horses will put their heads together, touch 

 nostrils, and in a second come to some sort of 

 mutual understanding, which leads to immedi- 

 ate concerted action such as the bolting of a 

 team. In one or two cases I am not sure that 

 the nostrils actually touched. In many cases 

 when I saw^ nostrils rubbed together or the 

 beard bristles in contact, no sound was made 

 within the compass of my hearing. Neither 

 were there such lip movements as would be 



