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bargains the New Englander is famous for 

 driving. But our domestic animals make bar- 

 gains with us and sometimes resolutely keep us 

 to them. On this point a pleasant writer relates 

 an anecdote of a favorite mare who was so diffi- 

 cult to catch in the pasture as to often require 

 six men to effect it ; " but," says he, " I carried 

 corn to her for a long time, without trying to 

 take her, leaving the corn on the grround. Next, 

 I induced her to eat the corn while I held it, 

 still leaving her free. Finally I persuaded her 

 to follow me, and now she will come trotting 

 half a mile at my whistle, leaping ditches, ford- 

 ing brooks, in the darkness and rain, or in 

 impenetrable fog. She follows me like a dog to 

 the stable and I administer the corn there. But 

 it is a bargain ; she knowingly sells her liberty 

 for the corn. The experiment of reducing the 

 reward to test her behavior having been tried, 

 she ceased to obey the whistle and resumed her 

 former habits ; but the full and due quantity 

 baving been restored, she yielded her liberty 



