HORSE-TRAINING MADE EASY. 19 



charger in his possession for two years, which he 

 left with the army, but which was brought back 

 and sold in London. About three years after- 

 wards the Colonel chanced to travel up town, and 

 at a relay, on getting out of the mail, the off- 

 wheel horse attracted his attention ; on going 

 near to examine it with more care he found the 

 animal recognised him, and testifying its satis- 

 faction by rubbing its head against him, and 

 making every moment a little stamp with its fore 

 feet, to the surprise of the coachman, who asked 

 if the horse was not an old acquaintance. It 

 was — it was his own old charger !" 



" A lady, remarkable for benevolence to the 

 brute creation, observed from her garden-gate 

 one day a miserable horse, with the shoulder raw 

 and bleeding, attempting to graze upon an open 

 spot adjacent ; having, by means of some bread, 

 coaxed the poor animal to the gate, she then 

 managed, with some assistance, to cover the 

 wound with adhesive plaster spread upon a piece 

 of soft leather. The man to whom the animal 

 belonged (one of those ignorant and careless 

 beings who are indifferent to the sufferings of 

 any but themselves) shortly afterwards led the 

 horse away. The next day, however, the horse 

 made his appearance again at the gate, over 

 which he put his head and gently neighed. On 

 looking at him it was found that the plaster was 

 removed, either by the animal's master, Dr by the 

 rubbing of the ill-made collar in which he worked. 

 The plaster was renewed. The third day he 



