28 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. 



them afar off ! And the war-horse " the glory of his 

 nostrils is terrible ! " 



The following anecdote, related by Professor Kiigler, 

 of Halle, proves both the sagacity and the fidelity of 

 the horse : A friend of his, riding home through a 

 wood on a dark night, struck his head against a branch 

 of a tree, and fell stunned to the ground. The horse 

 immediately returned to the house they had left, and 

 which was now closed, for the family had gone to bed. 

 He pawed at the door until some one rose and opened 

 it, and then he turned about ; and the man, wondering 

 at the affair, followed him. The faithful and intelli- 

 gent animal led him to the place where his master lay 

 senseless. A still more interesting incident, of a simi- 

 lar kind, occurred in this country : A little girl, the 

 daughter of a gentleman in Warwickshire, playing on 

 the banks of a canal which runs through his grounds, 

 fell into the water, and would in all probability have 

 been drowned, had not a small pony, which had long 

 been kept in the family, plunged into the stream, and 

 brought the child safely to land. 



Mr. Jesse gives an instance of what may fairly be 

 called the sensibility of the horse, and his keen per- 

 ception of danger. A friend of his was riding a horse 

 one day in India, attended by a spaniel which had long 

 been its companion. The dog ran into some long 

 grass, and came out crying and shaking its head ; the 

 horse, contrary to his usual custom, not only avoided 



