Faithfulness, Memory, Love of Home 23 



is too dominated by fear and foolishness to make his 

 loyalty or faithfulness always possible under vary- 

 ing circumstances. Do not be deceived by what you 

 may hear or read about this characteristic, and dis- 

 abuse your mind of the idea that the horse possesses 

 it; that he is true to his master; that he loves to 

 work for him; and that he performs his tasks 

 through " faithfulness," etc. It is a lovely theory 

 and a beautiful romance, " rolling trippingly " from 

 the lips of humanitarians who probably believe it, 

 but there lurk behind the lamentable facts that it 

 is neither true nor possible. 



Faithfulness implies loyalty to individual and to 

 occupation. The horse is true to neither. Person- 

 ally you — all human beings — are distasteful to him 

 — your very scent is unpleasant. In so far as he 

 finds you a medium to provide care and shelter, he 

 tolerates you, but you never reach a higher point 

 in his affections than that of acceptance as a neces- 

 sary evil ; a member of the race of bipeds which has 

 always (or generally) compelled obedience and 

 frustrated all efforts at rebellion. As his master he 



