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Most certainly not. Now I have given an illustration 

 of the king of the forest, as the lion is called, and also of 

 one of the largest quadrupeds of the present time, in the 

 foregoing anecdotes, thus showing how memory, sym- 

 pathy, pity and affection are all blended together in 

 these animals towards man, and his power and ability to 

 render them subservient to his will and have dominion 

 over them. Now is this instinct, is it reason, or what is 

 it? I pause here for an answer, though I will endeavor 

 to answer the question in my way when I speak of the 

 horse. But who will dare fix the limits of the instinct 

 or reasoning faculties of the animal creation? 



For fear that I have already wandered too far, I will 

 return again to the horse, which is one of the most tract- 

 able, having the greatest memory, and is withal one of 

 the most affectionate and sympathizing animals among 

 the larger quadrupeds in the world. To prove the first 

 of these assertions, it would only be necessary for you to 

 pay a visit to Dan Rice's great show, or Franconi's 

 hippodrome, and there see the horse perform some of his 

 wonderful feats, dance, waltz and keep perfect time with 

 the music, equaling in this respect a first class dancing 

 master. And then he has done this on the stage where 

 the floor was chequered with eggs, in squares of two feet 

 apait, without even moving one of them. Although the 

 horse is assisted by the motion of the rein and whi]) in 

 keeping time in the performance of these plays, he does 

 not do it without considerable intelligence on his part. 

 If you have any objections to being satisfied as to the 

 truth of above, by visiting the circus, you should re- 

 member that if there is any evil produced by it, it will 



