200 avery's own farrier. 



throw the harness over their backs as though they were 

 to go about their usual work, and they will obey you at 

 once, and thus be saved from the perils of the flames. 

 Now these facts I have witnessed. Truth cannot perish; 

 it is everlasting, it is heavenly. 



In order to show the wonderful sagacity of the horse, 

 and the great attachment and friendship that may exist 

 between him and man, as well as other animals, and 

 man's capacity to govern them under a proper mode of 

 treatment, I will give place here to a few well authenti- 

 cated anecdotes of some of the most important animals 

 in the world, which go to show also what man can ac- 

 complish when destitute of fear or excitement of any 

 kind. 



I will begin by relating the (almost incredible) story 

 as given ty Ezra Smith, of a voyage among the South 

 Sea Islands, where the vessel was wrecked and the only 

 one of the crew saved was finally landed on the deserted 

 shore of an uninhabited part of the island. Alone with 

 a small compass he happened to save by having it in his 

 pocket, he directed his course towards ihe nearest place 

 known to him to be inhabited, which was several days' 

 journey. After traveling all day, at night he lay down 

 to rest his wearied limbs, with only the precaution of 

 building a fire near his feet for the purpose of keeping 

 off the wild beasts that inhabited that country. Shortly 

 after lying down, he heard a heavy tread near him, and 

 immediately arose and saw a huge lion approaching 

 him. Being of iron nerve, and thinking that the time 

 had come that he must die, and that he might as well 

 submit to his fate calmly, he quietly awaited the ap- 



