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He will then very cautiously stretch out his neck 

 as far as he can reach, merely touching it with his 

 nose, as though he thought it was ready to fly at 

 him. But after he has repeated these touches a 

 few times, for the first time (though he has been 

 looking at it all the while,) he seems to have an 

 idea what it is. But now he has found, by the 

 sense of feeling, that it is nothing that will do him 

 any harm, and he is ready to play with it. And 

 if you watch him closely, you will see him take 

 hold of it with his teeth, and raise it up and pull 

 at it. And in a few minutes you can see that he 

 has not that same wild look about his eye, but 

 stands like a horse biting at some familiar stump. 

 Yet the horse is never so well satisfied when he 

 is about anything that has frightened him, as when 

 he is standing with his nose to it. And, in nine 

 cases out of ten, you will see some of that same 

 wild look about him again, as he turns to walk 

 from it. And you will probably see him looking 

 back very suspiciously as he walks away, as though 

 he thought it might come after him yet. And in all 

 probability, he will have to go back and make ano- 

 ther examination before he is satisfied. But he 

 will familiarize himself with it, and, if he should 

 run in that lot a few days, the robe that frightened 

 him so much at first will be no more' to him than a 

 familiar stump. 



