Faithfulness, Memory, Love of Home 27 



will wait " faithfully " his master's coming for 

 hours or for days. 



The " bump of locality," the homing instinct; and 

 the love of home are wonderfully developed, and 

 these possessions are, of course, a part of his pre- 

 dominating trait, - — memory, — as is his acceptance 

 and retention of one idea at a time. The unfortunate 

 part of it all is that these faculties render horses 

 acute sufferers from homesickness, which perhaps 

 may be construed roughly as morbid recollection. 

 No animal suffers more severely than he ; none 

 is more faithful to the accustomed stall, the familiar 

 yard; none is so little considered and consoled in this 

 respect. The dog also suffers intensely, but he 

 can be comforted by the incessant human companion- 

 ship and affection, which do not appeal so intimately 

 to the horse. That poor creature must pine in silence, 

 heartbroken and inconsolable, until time, " the uni- 

 versal healer," shall have assuaged the pain and 

 dimmed the recollection. Let years elapse, however, 

 and if returned to former scenes, he briskly and 

 joyfully takes all the familiar turnings, enters the 



