HOW TO MAKE MONEY BY HORSES. 99 



never become a willing one. But of all domestic 

 animals I have met with, the horse is the most diffi- 

 cult to control or pacify when under the influence of 

 fear. He is, take him all in all, a courageous ani- 

 mal, but there is a word or two to be said on this 

 subject. Like some men, horses often shew great 

 courage in situations of danger, but this not unfre- 

 quentlj^ arises in both from their not being conscious 

 of danger in that particular situation. For instance, 

 a horse would charge up to a regiment of infantrj', 

 though the bullets whistled around, as fearlessly on 

 the field of battle as he would at a review ; he is not 

 conscious of the difference of the situations ; but dis- 

 charge a cannon in his front, though only loaded with 

 powder, the chances are, it would be difficult to get 

 him up to a gun again — he has seen what alarms ; 

 the bullets he does not see, though he might be 

 wounded by them ; and if, after a discharge of small 

 arms, he should fear to face a regiment in line again, 

 the fear would arise from the supposed danger of the 

 flash, not from the real one of the bullets. He can- 

 not reason : if he could, he would know that if he 



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