32 THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. 



day, when the groom was out with the horse and grey- 

 hound for exercise, a large dog attacked the latter, and 

 quickly bore him to the ground ; on which the horse 

 threw back his ears, and, in spite of all the efforts of 

 the groom, rushed at the strange dog that was worry- 

 ing at the greyhound, seized him by the back with his 

 teeth, which speedily made him quit his hold, and 

 shook him till a large piece of the skin gave way. 

 The offender no sooner got on his feet, than he judged 

 it prudent to beat a precipitate retreat from so formi- 

 dable an opponent." 



Another instance of attachment between a horse and 

 a dog is related by Captain Brown, in his " Biogra- 

 phical Sketches :" " My friend, Dr. Smith, of the 

 Queen's County Militia, Ireland, had a beautiful hack- 

 ney, which, although extremely spirited, was at the 

 same time wonderfully docile. He had also a fine 

 Newfoundland dog, named Caesar. These animals 

 were mutually attached, and seemed perfectly ac- 

 quainted with each other's actions. The dog was 

 always kept in the stable at night, and uniformly lay 

 beside the horse. When Dr. Smith practised in 

 Dublin, he visited his patients on horseback, and had 

 no other servant to take care of the horse, while in 

 their houses, but Caesar, to whom he gave the reins 

 in his mouth. The horse stood very quietly, even in 

 that crowded city, beside his friend Caesar. When it 

 happened that the doctor had a patient not far distant 





