Mental Limitations of Horses 19 



force him to continue after he is thoroughly fatigued. 

 "Generosity" has nothing to do with the matter,. 

 and is but another of the fallacies which so much 

 endanger our relations with the horse who has us 

 and our loved ones so frequently, and so completely, 

 at his mercy. 



The reader may conclude that an effort is making 

 to depict the horse as a sort of fiend incarnate, with 

 no desirable or reasonable attribute whatever, but 

 this is far from the case. It is simply intended that 

 the public shall realise that those old " ghost stories " 

 of this and that wonderful display of intelligence 

 and foresig-ht upon the part of the equine race are 

 the merest fables, or explainable logically upon to- 

 tally different grounds from those usually set forth. 

 These yarns have been told and retold so many times 

 and with so much elaboration, that they have become 

 accepted as true and genuine incidents of experience 

 with the animals. It is not fair to the horse to expect 

 these developments ; it is dangerous in the last degree 

 to the person who absorbs them as gospel truths. 

 An active experience covering over thirty years 



