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also farms his own estate, informed me that he had a pony 

 which took the lead of all the horses on his farm, by virtue 

 simply of its superior intelligence. 



The possession of the leadership is apt to beget in differ- 

 ent animals, according to circumstances of individuality or 

 otherwise 



1. A sense of dignity, leading to or marked by demure- 

 ness or gravity of gait, look and behaviour. 



2. Pride in rank, office, or status, and in its insignia, 

 badges, or trappings, involving sometimes consequentiality 

 and a stickling for precedence. 



The military horse displays its pride in its caparison, as 

 it does in all the pomp or show of parade or procession ; and 

 the same sort of pride is exhibited by military elephants and 

 by leading mules in teams. But not only do some of these 

 animals for instance, the military horse recognise or ap- 

 preciate their own rank, but they are most observant of that 

 of man, or of the man with whom they have most to do 

 their master and rider. And their manner varies accord- 

 ingly. Thus the military horse that carries the general 

 sometimes shows conspicuously its self-importance by its 

 haughty gait (Watson). Such is the force of discipline and 

 habit, such the respect for rank in old regimental horses, 

 that at trumpet-call they have been known to form them- 

 selves with precision into rank led or commanded by the 

 officers' chargers ('Animal World'). The recognition of 

 distinctions of human rank is more familiar, however, in the 

 case of the dog (Watson). 



Wood tells us that the leader among deer, horses, and 

 oxen ' will not suffer ' certain things to be done 'without his 

 permission, and resents the slightest interference with his 

 authority.' His rule is more or less despotic ; and it may 

 be that, under the circumstances, despotic government is 

 the only form of rule that has any chance of success. There 

 is an equal danger in other animals, as in man, however, 

 of the abuse of despotic power in tyranny. 



The love of precedence is sometimes strikingly exemplified 

 among cows. Thus the case is given of an English cow that 

 was 'the very personification of pride. . . . She claimed 



