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required admonition to keep her to business, and had 

 learnt to remember that a deep sigh from her master 

 at her stupidity was the calm before the storm. He 

 never fed the mare himself, and unless he drove her, 

 which he did through London traffic without reins, 

 she was exercised by his groom, of whom she had 

 no opinion whatever, as he was not allowed to cor- 

 rect her. 



A committee of experts met in 1907 with the 

 object of establishing or disposing of the mare's 

 claim to responsive intelligence, her detractors as- 

 serting that her feats were performed by means of a 

 trick. She had just recovered from a severe attack 

 of pneumonia, and after tests lasting over an hour 

 and a half she showed such fatigue that the com- 

 mittee released her, and endeavored to come to a 

 decision. Though a majority was in favor of credit- 

 ing the mare with responsive intelligence, no under- 

 standing could be arrived at, as the remaining mem- 

 bers of the committee were strongly adverse to their 

 decision, and the inquiry was adjourned for further 

 examination. 



I believe in the genuineness of the mare's attain- 

 ments ; if the show had been trick-work on the part 



