24 THE HOESE AND HIS EIDER. 



honest face, could not fascinate a liorse's heart quite as 

 easily as a husband's, we cross-questioned the latter for a 

 considerable time, until he at last mentioned (as if it had 

 nothing whatever to do with the subject) that when he 

 purchased the yearling (whose mother had just died), not 

 knowing how to bring it to his wife, with the assistance 

 of one or two men he strapped together all its four feet, 

 and then, lifting it into his cart, just as if it had been a 

 calf, he trotted away with it, jolting it and jumbling it 

 till he reached his home, where he uncarted it, and, in due 

 time, with his own hands, restored to it the use of its limbs. 

 Of course this was a much stronger dose of discipline 

 and subjection than Mr. Earey has ever found necessary 

 to administer, even to Cruiser; ^and there can exist no 

 doubt it was this cooling medicine, this soothing mixture, 

 which had produced the strange and salutary effects that 

 had attracted us into the little yard. And thus, in every 

 region of the globe, not only colts and horses, but all living 

 animals, man especially included, surrender at discretion 

 to any authority which, after a fruitless struggle — such 

 a one for instance as induced Napoleon I., on the 15th 

 of July, 1815, to seek for refuge on board H. M. ship 

 Bellerophon from the allied armies of Europe — they find 

 it to be utterly impossible to resist. 



The differences between the character and conduct of 



