150 CURIOSITY SUCCEEDS FRIGHT 

 at the umbrella and snort. Then perhaps a 

 sudden gust drives the umbrella towards him, 

 whereupon the animal starts off again in mad 

 career. But being confined by the hedges of 

 the field, he eventually finds himself on the 

 further side of the dreaded object, which, 

 meanwhile, continues its erratic course before 

 the wind. But now it is travelling away from 

 the horse who, by this time, has come to a 

 standstill and is gazing fixedly at the retreat- 

 ing object. By degrees the panic condition 

 subsides, giving place to curiosity, and the 

 horse, like the ducks, slowly proceeds to 

 follow up the very object which at first was 

 the cause of such abject fright. 



The end of it is, the horse approaches the 

 umbrella and actually sniffs at it ; but he 

 comes to no reasonable conclusion, the proof 

 of which is that should the umbrella chance to 

 be blown out in his face, he becomes panic- 

 stricken as before. Yet the thing is perfectly 

 harmless, as any being with intelligence would 

 have seen at a glance. 



We gather from this description, which I 

 think is fairly true to nature, that the senses 

 of fear and curiosity are somehow connected. 



The animal man (and dare I say woman ?) 

 has this same sense of curiosity strongly in- 

 herent, as is shown by the following common 



