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will stick up his head and snort. Then throw it down some- 

 where in the centre of the lot or barn, and walk off to one 

 side. Watch his motions, and study his nature. If he is 

 frightened at the object, he will not rest until he has touched 



it with his nose. He will 

 begin to walk around the 

 robe and snort, all the time 



8TR.P POR THE BioHT FOKE LEO. (See pages Setting a little cloSCr, until 



366-370.) lie finally gets within reach 



of it. He will then very cautiously stretch out his neck 

 as far as he can reach, merely touching it with his nose, as 

 though he thought it was ready to fly at him. But after he 

 has repeated these touches for a few times, for the first time 

 (though he has been looking at it all the while) he seems to 

 have an idea of what it is. When he has found, by the sense 

 of feeling, that it is nothing that will do him any harm, he is 

 ready to play with it. If you watch him closely, you will see 

 him take hold of it with his teeth, and raise it up, and pull at 

 it ; and in a few minutes you can see that he has not that same 

 wild look about his eye, but that he stands like a horse biting 

 at some familiar stump. 



Yet the horse is never so well satisfied wnen he is about any- 

 thing that has frightened him, as when he is standing with his 

 nose to it ; and in nine cases out of ten, you will see some of that 

 same wild look about him again, as he turns to walk from it. 

 You will, probably, see him looking back very suspiciously as 

 he walks away, as though he thought it might come after him 

 yet. In all probability he will have to go back and make 

 another examination before he is satisfied ; but he will familiar- 

 ize himself with it, and if he should run in that field for a few 



