INTELLECT OF THE HORSE. 3 



We accuse the horse of not possessing hitelligence. 

 We forget to bring home to ourselves the want of 

 necessary care and attention on our own parts. He 

 will repay to his utmost the many kindnesses we may 

 lavish upon him ; he will follow us as the dog ; he will 

 know the sound of our voice, and the echo of the fall of 

 our foot ; he will keep guard over our person, and the 

 weight of his hoof shall not bruise the tenderest or the 

 fairest skin. Take him by the most lonely road, across 

 the wildest country in the darkest night ; and when 

 years have elapsed he will thread the same maze with 

 fidelity and precision. He will turn at every turn, and 

 stay at every roof that sheltered him in days long 

 gone by. 



The fact is, we are greatly wanting in our endea- 

 vours to cultivate his intellectual powers. We are 

 profuse in our attempts to overcome the inequalities of 

 his disposition by physical means ; but in brute force 

 he is our superior ; and when this secret once becomes 

 palpable to his senses, it is a most difficult and arduous 

 undertaking to disabuse him of the knowledge, and to 

 cure him of the propensity for vice and wickedness. 



The object, therefore, of the author, in the following 

 pages, is to teach the noble art of horsemanship, with 



