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THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. 



could ; but if unable to accomplish this, she would 

 rush fiercely upon them, strike at them with her fore- 

 feet, and tear them with her teeth. 



One of these horses, the second, was by long and 

 kind attention divested of its insane terror, and became 

 perfectly quiet and useful ; but the other three bid de- 

 fiance to all means of cure, and to coercion amongst 

 the rest. The cases of all four were as decided in- 

 stances of monomania, or insanity confined to one ob- 

 ject, as ever were exhibited in the human being 



