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horse one season. At the commencement of the next 

 he very imprudently took him out before he was fit to 

 go ; in short, fat : the consequence was he could not 

 carry his master in his usual way. He foolishly thought 

 the horse sulked, and punished him a good deal with 

 the spurs, till he fairly shut up ; in short, knocked up. 

 His master went the last thing at night to look at him ; 

 the moment the horse saw him, he ran at him open 

 mouthed : fortunately the door was open ; but so near 

 a thing was it, he left a small piece of his flesh and the 

 whole of the back of his coat in the horse's mouth, 

 right glad to get off so well. Now the horse had offered 

 no injury to the man who had dressed and done him 

 up, though he remarked his being very irritable in 

 being cleaned ; but he remembered master, and would 

 not let him come near him. I saw the horse two days 

 afterwards, went up to him as I always had done, and 

 found him perfectly good tempered. I then bought 

 him. Some weeks afterwards T rode him into his old 

 master's yard : he of course came towards me. So 

 soon as he was within a few yards of me, the horse 

 laid his ears in his poll, and would have run at him 

 had I not checked him : and it was remarkable, but a 

 fact, that ever afterwards, at least so long as I had 

 him, the moment the door of a stable or box where he 

 was standing was opened, he looked instantly at who 

 was coming ; and, I make no doubt, but two years 

 afterwards, when I sold him, had his old master gone 

 near him, he would have run at him if he could. 



The next circumstance was very similar, and I 

 bring it forward that the first may not be thought a 

 solitary instance of a horse knowing his oppressor. I 

 purchased a mare to carry my wife : she was one of 

 the neatest and most perfect fencers I ever saw, and a 



