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upon these occasions, tlie horses rarely, if ever, trample upon the bodies of the wounded or the 

 dead with which the field is scattered. If a trumpet sound, too, the riderless horse, if not frantic 

 with the agony of wounds, will follow upon the sound, but will turn away again if he finds that 

 the uniform of the party is not like that of his own regiment. If his rider falls when the horse 

 is at considerable speed, the horse instantly stops, so that an exchange is frequently soon made of 

 a rider who has lost his horse and a horse that has lost his rider. Veteran horses are rarely, if 

 ever, panic-struck, and though they are, of course, liable to be taken prisoners, they never desert 

 to the enemy. 



"The most remarkable fact of the whole matter, however, is the evident fondness which horses 

 that have been accustomed to it have for the army ; and this appears both in their fondness for 

 particular regiments and in that for all military array, and even military weapons. It is told that, 

 in one of their insurrections in the early part of this century, the Tyrolese captured fifteen horses 

 belonging to the troops sent against them, and mounted them with fifteen of their own men, in 

 order to go out to a fresh rencounter with the same troops ; but no sooner did these horses hear 

 the well-known sound of their own trumpet, and recognize the uniform of their own squadron, 

 than they dashed onward at full speed, and in spite of all the efforts of their riders, bore them 

 into the ranks, and delivered them up as prisoners to the squadron ! If an old military horse, 

 even when reduced almost to skin and bone, hears the roll of a drum or the twang of a 

 trumpet, the freshness of his youth appears to come upon him, and if he at the same time gets 

 a sight of men clad in uniform and drawn up in line, it is no easy matter to prevent him from 

 joining them. 



"Nor does it signify what kind of military they are, as is shown by the following case. Toward 

 the close of the last century, about the time when volunteers were first embodied in the different 

 towns of England, an extensive line of turnpike road was in progress of construction in a part of 

 the north. The Clerk to the Trustees upon this line used to send one of his assistants to ride 

 along occasionally in order to see that the contractors, who were at work in a great many places, 



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