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with his ability to gov^ern and control them all, and 

 when he sees the most ferocious beasts flee at his ap- 

 proach ? As I stated above, the domesticated horse 

 loves man, and I very much doubt whether there is ' 

 another creature on earth that is so universally be- 

 loved b}' man as the horse. They look upon man as 

 their friend, and when in trouble will run to him for 

 help and protection. As an evidence of this fact, I 

 need only relate one circumstance that I witnessed 

 with my friend and neighbor in Michigan. He had 

 a mare- that owned a colt about a week old, running 

 in a field wherein was an old well fourteen feet deep, 

 which had been covered witli plank, which, by some 

 means had got ofP, so that the colt fell into the well. 

 This happened about the break of day, and before I 

 had got out of bed I heard the noise and clatter of a 

 horse's hoofs, which awoke me. This was followed 

 by a loud neigh of a horse at my door. I scrambled 

 out of bed, and went to the door just in time to see 

 the old mare returning towards the well that was 

 some forty rods distant. Seeing her look down int(f 

 the well, and then start for the house again, I antici- 

 pated the trouble she was in. I summoned help, and 

 started for the well ; but not without being met sev- 

 eral times by the old mare, (who seemed to be almost 

 frantic,) as if to hurry me on to the place of disaster. 

 When I arrived, the colt was splashing in the water 

 at the bottom. I immediately got him out with the 

 help of ropes that I took along with me, when they 

 both followed me back to the house ; and whenever 



