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not attended to the illustrations they might liave dbserved, or 

 experienced, of the mesmeric language that may be estahlished 

 between a horse and his constant rider, and have not discovered 

 how much more complete his education can be made without 

 than with the usual instruments of torture. In less than one 

 year's careful training, with only the one rider, the ordinary 

 English thoroughbred horse will learn to go through all such 

 evolution.s to perfection, and keep in good temper over it too, 

 which he would not do with a sharp bit and spurs. So that we 

 need not wonder that the Arab who rides the same horse every 

 day during their mutual lives, and eats, drinks, and sleeps with it, 

 can teach it to read all his dumb signals as certainly as an observant 

 wife can read all the dumb motions that indicate her husband's 

 wants. 



203. — There is nothing that the Aral) teaches his horse that 

 an Englishman could not teach an English horse if he treated 

 him more as a friend and companion. 



A New Zealand Maori woman is by no means superior to 

 an English lady, but whilst the English lady believes a pig to be 

 the most stupid and filthy of animals, the Maori woman Avho has 

 taken to suckle a young pig as a substitute for her lost baby, 

 discovers that the animal is so cleanly in its habits that it can 

 be kept in a drawing room, so tractable that it will walk about a 

 flower garden without stepping on a border, and so clever that it 

 can be taught to beat its mistress at a game at cards. The 

 Australian squatters who import the best collie dogs that money 

 can procure from Scotland, and keep scores of the poor brutes 

 on the chain, as the mere chattels of their extensive estates, 

 never have a dog to equal the one faithful day and night com- 

 panion of the poor mountain shepherd and his family. 



" Love, and love only, is the boon for love ; 

 All like the purchase, few the price will pay. 

 And this makes friends such miracles on earth." 



204. — But although horses trained to bound oft" or stop 

 suddenly, at some short hand signal, are delightful horses to 

 their first and only rider, and enable him to perform wonders on 

 horseback which other persons cannot understand, they are 



