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EFFECT OF MUSIC UPON THE HORSE. 



" Hark ! 'tis the Indian drum." 



Everywhere the horse is recognised as the most 

 useful of the servants of man, and it yields in intelligence 

 to the dog 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 indirectly, 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 recognised and under- 

 stood 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 milk- 

 man screamed and yelled, and in vain the pedestrians 

 attempted to stop the runaway, but its martial ardour 

 having been inflamed by the well remembered bugle call, it 

 brooked no opposition, and suffered no obstacle to impede 

 its course till it found itself in the ranks of its old com- 





