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suspicion, apprehension, appearance or approach 

 of danger. This may be denominated native 

 timidity, giving rise to that kind of shyness with 

 which colts, and young animals generally, are 

 endowed. There is another kind of shyness 

 which we may denominate acquired. To illus- 

 trate, a colt is naturally shy at any object of im- 

 posing appearance, either novel or strange to 

 him. On the other hand, he beholds an object 

 that is familiar to him, which he associates with 

 some former suffering. We do not mean to assert 

 that these manifestations of fear are alike, further 

 than that they arise from the impressions made 

 upon the brain, a dread or consciousness of dan- 

 ger, in the one case acquired, in the other con- 

 genital. Shyness may be attributed to a third 

 cause, imperfect vision. A horse whose eye- 

 sight is imperfect is apt to shy at objects in con- 

 sequence of not seeing them properly. The 

 disposition to shy arising from either of the above 

 causes, is often increased by the acts of the 

 driver; for instance (a very common one), a man 

 is driving a young horse upon the road, he meets 

 an object of fear to the animal, and, as he ap- 

 proaches it, starts suddenly out of the road, his 

 driver instantly commences a round of castigati.on 

 with the whip, in which he persists until the 

 horse, as well as himself, have lost their temper, 

 and then, while one whips, the other jumps, 

 plunges, frets, &c. The next object of fear the 

 animal meets recalls the whipping previously in- 

 flicted upon him. and ap'-ociates it with the object 



