18 HORSE-TRAINING MADE EASIT. 



Had he been able to ste^jr his way directly across, 

 the pier-wall would have proved an insurmount- 

 able barrier. As it was, the current forced him 

 down below where the lower extremity of this 

 long pier abuts upon an island, the shore of 

 which being low and shelving, he was enabled 

 to effect a landing with comparative ease. Hav- 

 ing gained terra Jirma^ he shook the water from 

 his dripping flanks, when he plunged into the 

 basin and soon regained his native shore. At 

 the commencement of his voyage, his arched 

 neck and withers were above the surface, but 

 before he reached the island his head only was 

 visible. He reached his own stable-door — that 

 home for which he risked so much — to the no 

 small astonishment of his owner. This un- 

 expected visit made a favorable impression on 

 his master, for he was heard to make a vow that 

 if old Grizzle performed the feat a second time, 

 for the future he should remain on his own 

 side of the river, and never be sent to the mill 

 again. Grizzle was sent back to work the boat 

 the following day, but he embraced the first 

 opportunity that occurred of escaping, and swam 

 back the way he had done before. His owner, 

 not being a person to break the promise he once 

 made, never afterwards dispossessed him of the 

 stall he had long been accustomed to, but treated 

 him with marked kindness and attention." 



Colonel Hamilton Smith, of the British Army, 

 relates a case which proves the memory and 

 attachment of the horse : " The Colonel had a 



