56 The Hokse Farrier. 



of feeling, that it is nothing that will do him any harm, 

 and he is ready to play with it. 



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 wild look about him 

 again, as he turns to walk irom 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 another examination before he is satis- 

 fied. But he will familiarize himself with it, and if he 

 should run in that yard a few days, the robe that fright- 

 ened him so at first, will be no more to him than a 

 familiar stump. 



SUPPOSITIONS ON THE SENSE OF SMELLING. 



We might very naturally suppose, from the fact of 

 the horse's applying his nose to everything new to 

 him, that he always does so for the purpose of smelling 

 these objects. But I believe that it is as much or more 

 for the purpose of feeling, and that he makes use of 

 his nose, or muzzle, (as it is sometimes called,) as we 

 would our hands ; because it is the only organ by which 

 he ean^ touch or feel anything with much susceptibility. 



I believe he invariably makes use of the four senses, 

 seeing, hearing, smelling and feeling, in all of his ex- 

 aminations, of which the sense of feeling is, perhaps, 

 the most important. And we know from experience, 

 that if a horse sees and smells a robe a short distance 

 from him, he is very much frightened, (unless he is 

 used to it,) until he touches or feels it with his nose ; 

 which is a positive proof that feeling is the controlling 

 sense in this case* 



