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that many animals may be impelled by a feeling of fear, when no dangei 

 is present ? 



This is sooner admitted, when it is perceived that the fancy is active 

 in proportion as the intellect is weak : the groom, not having a very 

 powerful understanding, nor having yet slept off the potions and fumes 

 of the previous evening, curses those "vicious varmints," as he shiver- 

 ingly opens the stable door. No sooner, however, does the candle 

 illumine, or his presence destroy the loneliness of the place, than fearful 

 eyes cast backward glances, and seeing nothing, all instantly becomes 

 silent. Our engraving of the above incident represents every horse in 

 action; though, frequently, the more slothful will remain passive, not- 

 withstanding the tumult which prevails around them. 



KIOEINO IN THE NIQHT. 



This is the effect invariably produced, as soon as the quadrupeds have 

 sufficiently mastered their terror to regain their natural perceptions. 

 Sometimes, however, a minute may elapse before consciousness is per- 

 fectly restored. That is the period of danger. Many silly fellows, 

 impatient of their thin clothing, pierced by the frosty air, will approach 

 the animals, during the interval, without remembering that though his 



