CHAPTER 11. 

 Faithfulness, Memory, Love of Home 



TO concede that the horse possesses faithful- 

 ness — in the ordinary acceptation of the 

 word — as a conspicuous trait is to attribute to 

 him another quahty of which he is not capable. 

 Faithfulness is defined as " loyalty," " sincerity," and 

 these virtues the animal does not exhibit, although 

 the ungenerous motives of desire for food and shelter 

 will produce results seemingly typical of such 

 nobility of purpose and action. Of the quality of 

 devotion evidenced by the dog, for instance, the 

 horse shows not one particle; nor can he attain 

 the eminence of the canine in this respect, because 

 his characteristics are dissimilar, even did his oppor- 

 tunities allow; because any such latent inclination 

 has not been developed, as with the canine, through 

 generations of association with man ; and because he 



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