18 THE MIND OV THE HORSE 



In the sixteenth ceiitiiry there was a special 

 place kept, provided ^\ ith plenty of straw, in ^\ hicli 

 the horses, on returning from work c<nild roll over 

 to their hearts' content and remove the stiifness 

 given to their limbs by fatigue. 



The horse feels irritation and anuer if acted 

 towards in a way which displeases him; he feels 

 envy if another horse receives food v*hilst he has 

 none. He feels sometimes antipathy or hatred to- 

 wards a given horse without an intelligible reason ; 

 in this manner several horses occasionally come 

 to an understanding against one of their number 

 and it is requisite to separate them in order to 

 prevent them from injuring him. Some horses 

 hate all other horses and injure them on th( ir 

 approach. 



The ordinary horse is much more subject to 

 fear and is much more obstinate and ditficult to, 

 persuade than a horse of a good breed. He resem 

 bles the ass, who seems rather indifferent to both 

 good and bad treatment. All the instincts are more 

 powerful and acute in the A^ild horse and in lit at 

 reared in the o^jen air than in the domestically 



