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following its master. In Ireland it is made a member of 

 man's household, both literally and figuratively. 



2. The horse of the Arab also lives in family with its 

 master, having, like the pig, equal privileges with other 

 members of the family, and it is even more petted than its 

 companion man. The great secret of horse-tamers such as 

 Rarey, Sullivan, and Jumper, was the judicious administra- 

 tion of kindness, and so imparting confidence. This confidence 

 is all-important on the part of the horse towards or in its 

 rider, master or trainer, at once begetting, in the majority 

 at least of cases of ordinarily unruly animals, calmness, 

 quietude and submission. 



3. The dog of the Scotch shepherd, which is its master's 

 trusted friend and loved companion, as well as his intelligent 

 and useful servant, and which in this case too shares his 

 dwelling and his food, is, again, a veritable member of his 

 family or household is a very different animal from the 

 street dog of a Turkish city. 



4. Even the ox becomes man's associate, companion, and 

 favourite for instance, among the Hottentots, who treat 

 their cattle with great gentleness and consideration (Watson 

 and Pierquin). 



5. The elephant, when tamed and trained in India, stands 

 in the most intimate and friendly relationship to its ' mahout.' 



6. The very wasp, the emblem of the acme or essence of 

 ill-nature in man, has lately shown, in the hands of Sir John 

 Lubbock, the power of man's patience, forbearance, and 

 humanity in rendering it as tame, as placable and mild, as 

 our various domestic animals. 



Not only, however, does kindness bring out all the animal 

 virtues, but it represses the animal vices. It is not only edu- 

 cational, but remedial. It softens, calms, soothes, or subdues 

 surliness, ferocity, and fury ; it corrects a multitude of vices 

 of temper. 



There are exceptions, however, to the generally beneficial 

 or beneficent influence of kindness. There are every now 

 and then, every here and there, individuals of various species 

 and genera that are unamenable to its usual influence 



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