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again occasion to take the same journey. No one rode 

 this horse but himself, and he was perfectly assured that 

 the animal had not since been in that direction. Three 

 or four miles before he reached his journey's end, he 

 was benighted. He had to traverse moor and common, 

 and he could scarcely see his horse's head. The rain 

 began to pelt. ' Well,' thought he, ' here I am, far 

 from any house, and know not, nor can I see an inch of 

 my road. I have heard much of the memory of the 

 torse, it is my only hope now, so there,' throwing 

 the reins on his horse's neck, 'go on.' In half an 

 hour, he was safe at his friend's gate." 



A statement not less singular will be found in another 

 interesting work, entitled " The Menageries." " We 

 knew a horse (and have witnessed the circumstance), 

 which, being accustomed to be employed once a week 

 on a journey with the newsman of a provincial paper, 

 always stopped at the houses of the several customers, 

 although they were sixty or seventy in number. But, 

 further, there were two persons on the route who took 

 one paper between them, and each claimed the privilege 

 of having it first on the alternate week. The horse 

 soon became accustomed to this regulation ; and although 

 the parties lived two miles distant, he stopped once a 

 fortnight at the door of the half-customer at Thorpe, 



