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in the saddle. I shall have to insist on this more 

 in detail, when I come to the lessons of practical 

 instruction. But I desire here to make some 

 general observations as to the meaning to be 

 attached to the expression — '' Conveying your 

 thoughts to the horse.'^ I have sometimes been 

 asked, with an incredulous smile: "Is the horse 

 a thought-reader ? '' I answer, Yes and No : 

 Yes, in the sense in which alone thought can be 

 conveyed, viz., through the material mechanism 

 appropriate to the reception and conveyance of 

 impressions: No, in any sense in which thought 

 is divorced from that mechanism. An illustration 

 will, I hope, make plain my meaning. 



A short time ago considerable interest was 

 excited by the performances of Mr. Stuart Cum- 

 berland, the so-called Thought-Reader, It will 



