PERSEVERANCE. 



The horse affords the best 

 example amongst animals of 

 perseverance ; he will go on un- 

 til he falls exhausted or dead. 

 On the Yorkshire moors, after 

 a heavy fall of snow, the roads 

 are quite lost, and it often hap- 

 pens that the mailman has to 

 unharness his horse (the cart 

 being blocked by the snow,) and 

 trust to the horse's courage and 

 endurance to carry the mails from 

 village to village. It has been 

 known that the driver has been 

 overcome by the intense cold, 

 when the horse has found his 

 way unaided to the nearest ac- 

 customed stopping place. 



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