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author very many opportuaities of studying the 

 disposition of th*^ horse, and how to manage it to 

 the best advantage has been his special study. 

 That the horse possesses more intelligence than 

 has been accredited to him is very evident from his 

 readiness to learn, when properly instructed. The 

 feats he is taught to perform in the " spectacles'' 

 of the modern circus fully prove this. Knowledge 

 of time, and memory, are certainly possessed by 

 the horse, as a thousand instances will convince. 

 A horse accustomed to commence or leave oflf 

 work at a certain hour of the day, well knows 

 the respective periods. Well does the farmer's 

 team know the hour of release from labor, as is 

 shown by their actions when hearing the horn for 

 dinner. Taken to a distance from home, the 

 horse will return, finding his way during the 

 darkest night. The following, taken from an old 

 number of the London Penny Magazine, illus- 

 trates the love of the horse for its " old home :" — 

 " A short distance below Fort Erie, and about 

 a mile from where the river Niagara escapes over 

 a barrier of rocks from the depths of Lake Erie, 

 a ferry has long been established across the broad 

 and, there, exceedingly rapid river, the distance 

 from shore to shore being a little over one-third 

 of a mile. On the Canada side of the river is 

 the small village of Waterloo, and opposite 

 thereto, on the tJnited States side, is the large 

 village of Black Kock, distant from the young and 

 flourishing city of Buffalo two miles. In com- 

 pleting the Erie Canal, a pier or dam was erected 



