

VEKTEBRATA. 



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THE HOUSE IN" THE PAGEANTRY OF WAR. 



were doing their work properly. The assistant, on these journeys, rode a horse which had for a 



g time carried a field-officer, and, though aged, .•-till possessed a great deal of spirit. One day. 



as he waa passing near a town of considerable size which lay on the line of road, the volunteers 



were at drill on the common, and the instant that Solus — that was the name of the horse — heard 



the drum he leaped the fence, and was speedily at that post in front of the volunteers which would 



been occupied by the commanding officer of a regiment on parade, or at drill; nor could the 



rider by any means gel him off the ground until the volunteers retired to the town. As long as 



they kept the field the horse toot the proper place of a commanding officer during all their 



maneuvi re, and he marched at the head of the corps into the town, prancing in military style, 



leverly as his stiffened legs would allow, to the great amusement of the volunteers and s\ 



rs, and the no small annoyance of the clerk, who did not feel very highly honored by Solos 



makings colonel of him againsl bis will." 



In addition to this high spirit in the horse, which echoes so well the fiery impulses in the bosom 

 of man, and which has placed him in the very foreground of the more active and progressive por- 

 f human history, whether amid the appalling horrors of the battle-field, or the more entic- 

 of martial pomp and pageantry, there arc other circumstances which render this ani- 

 mal an object of peculiar interest. It has been Baid that "so far as we can predicate morality of 

 a creature unendowed with an immortal spirit, the horse has a moral history. Many animals live 



'» ■' ' perhaps more close d atication than the horse does, and the dog especially, being 



which in a state of nature requires more art and stratagem for finding his food, is capable of, 

 evincing his attachment to his master in a greater variety of ways. The dog will fight for his 



