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EFFECT OF MUSIC UPON THE HORSE. 



** Hark 1 'tis the Indian drum." 



VERYWHERE the horse Is recognized 

 as the most useful of the servants of 

 man, and it yields in intelligence to 

 the do^ alone 



In the early ages of the world, the 

 horse seems to have been devoted to the 

 purposes of war and pleasure ; but its 

 beauty and strength and tractability 

 have now connected it, directly or in- 

 directly, with all the purposes of life. 

 If it differs in different countries in 

 form and size, it is from the influence of climate and 

 cultivation, but otherwise, from the war horse — as it is 

 depicted on the friezes of ancient' temples — to the stately 

 charger of Holsten, or from the fleet and beautiful Arabian 

 to the diminutive Shetlander, there is an evident similarity 

 of form and origin. 



Of course, in training the horse for military purposes, it is 

 necessary that it should understand the various bugle sounds 

 or calls, and it is astonishing how quickly these are recog- 

 nized and understood by the horse, who appears never to 

 forget them. 



It is related that a milkman once stepped from his cart to 

 supply a customer with milk, and just as he did so the bugle 

 of a cavalry regiment that was being drilled in a public 

 park near, sounded, and away bolted the horse, drawing 

 cart and milk cans behind it. In vain the milkman screamed 

 and yelled, and in vain the pedestrians attempted to stop the 

 runaway, but its martial ardour, having been inflamed by the 

 well-remembered bup;le call, it brooked no opposition, and 

 suffered no obstacle to impede its course, till it found itsell 

 in the ranks of its old companions-in-arms, where its comical 



