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made bj'^ speech, nor was there any self- 

 conscious, found-out expression in the faces of 

 conspirators caught plotting against the white 

 men. 



When I have been in company with some 

 very dear friend, and one of us would answer 

 out loud to an unspoken thought of the other, 

 or both of us were moved to say the same 

 thing in the like words, we called that thought- 

 transference. When my horse came to me in 

 camp, and standing behind caressed my neck 

 or ear with his lips or nostril trying by thought- 

 transference to tell me all about his pain or 

 sorrow, he might get his face slapped before I 

 realised exactly what he said. Only as I 

 learned to welcome horses when they came to 

 me, I seemed to sense their feelings. They 

 converse among themselves by thought-trans- 

 ference, and try to speak that way to men they 

 trust. 



The barriers between horse and man are 

 tremendous. Think what it is for a fastidious 

 creature, with powers of scenting which can 

 descry clean standing water at nearly five 

 miles without wind, to come near a meat- 

 eating creature like a man, powerfully and 

 offensively scented. Suffering from nausea 

 without obtaining the relief permitted to a 



