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from the place where he paid his last visit, he did not 

 think it worth while to remount, but called to his 

 horse and Caesar. They both instantly obeyed, and 

 remained quietly opposite the door where he entered, 

 until he came out again. While he remained in Mary- 

 borough, Queen's County, where I commanded a de- 

 tachment, I had many opportunities of witnessing the 

 friendship and sagacity of these intelligent animals. 

 The horse seemed to be as implicitly obedient to his 

 friend Caesar as he could possibly be to his groom. 

 The doctor would go to the stable, accompanied by 

 his dog, put the bridle upon his horse, and giving the 

 reins to Caesar, bid him take the horse to the water. 

 They both understood what was to be done, when off 

 trotted Caesar, followed by the horse, which frisked, 

 capered, and played with the dog all the way to the 

 rivulet, about three hundred yards distant from the 

 stable. We followed at a great, distance, always 

 keeping as far off as possible, so that we could ob- 

 serve their manoeuvres. They invariably went to the 

 stream, and after the horse had quenched his thirst, 

 both returned in the same playful manner as they had 

 gone out. i 



" The doctor frequently desired Caesar to make the 

 horse leap over this stream, which might be about six 

 feet broad. The dog, by a kind of bark, and leaping 

 up towards the horse's head, intimated to him what he 

 wanted, which was quickly understood ; and he can- 

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