i8 MENTAL QUALITIES OF THE HORSE. 



cease speaking, and, when the horse moved off again, to 

 get into the dog-cart without uttering a word. As soon as 

 the horse thought that the owner of the detested voice had 

 gone away, he started on his journey in obedience to the 

 signal of his driver, and carried the two gentlemen to their 

 destination in his usual orderly manner. 



When the horse is under the influence of either fear or 

 anger, he will often act with total disregard to his own 

 safety. I knew a case of a pony mare who, on getting by 

 accident over her head a bag which prevented her from 

 seeing, started off in a mad gallop, and dashed out her brains 

 against the first lamp-post she encountered. Some jibbers 

 have been flogged and spurred in the most cruel manner, 

 without being induced to proceed in the required direction ; 

 and others, which have thrown themselves down in their 

 sulky fit, have had fires lighted under them without making 

 them get up. From anger as well as from fear, horses have 

 kicked so violently against hard objects, that they have not 

 alone inflicted severe wounds on their legs, but have even 

 broken them. A dog, unless he was mad, would do none 

 of these things ; because he has intelligence enough to 

 recognise the folly of needlessly hurting himself. I have 

 observed that if a kicking mule, when in harness, gets a 

 hind leg over a shaft or trace, he will, unlike what a horse 

 would usually do under similar conditions, keep quiet and 

 allow himself to be released as speedily as possible. This, 

 I think, is a valid argument in favour of the idea that mules 

 are, as a rule, more intelligent than horses. 



Horses will sometimes treasure up the feeling of revenge 

 against those who have injured them, whether the offenders 



