THE EDUCATION OF THE HORSE 19 



caused great damage because a rooster flapped his wings 

 and crowed beside the road. 



Without denying the fact that some horses have 

 shown great sense, have apparently learned to reason 

 and appear to be always trustworthy, yet it often 

 happens that a horse trusted because of his previous 

 good behavior seems all of a sudden to become a fool. 

 It is wiser, therefore, never to put oneself in jeopardy 

 by too implicitly trusting in an animal much stronger 

 than oneself, and one which too often is lacking in 

 good sense. The pistol that is not loaded is always the 

 one that goes off and kills somebody. 



