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soon learned to ride him; and whenever I led Rarus 
out to show him to the public, Jim invariably knew 
what it meant, and enhanced the value of the per- 
formance by the manner in which he would get on the 
horse’s back. On these occasions the horse was shown 
to halter, and Jimmy, who learned to distinguish such 
events from those in which the sulky was used, would 
follow Dave and Rarus out on the quarter stretch; 
and then when the halt was made in front of the grand 
stand, Dave would stoop down, and in a flash Jimmy 
would jump on his back, run up his shoulder, from 
there leap on the horse’s back, and there he would 
stand, his head high in the air and his tail out stiff 
behind, barking furiously at the people. He seemed 
to know that he was as much a part of the show as 
the horse, and apparently took great delight in attract- 
ing attention to himself.” 
When Rarus was sold to Mr. Bonner, Splan sent 
Jimmy with the horse, rightly judging that it would 
be cruel to separate them. But in Mr. Bonner’s stable 
there was already a bull-terrier in charge, and one day 
when, for some real or. fancied affront, the small dog 
attacked the larger one, the latter took Jimmy by the 
neck and was fast killing him; but Rarus heard his 
outeries, and perceiving that his little friend was in 
danger and distress, pulled back on the halter till it 
broke, rushed out of his stall, and would have made 
short work with the bull-terrier had he not been re- 
strained by the grooms. 
The examples which I have cited prove that horses 
are far more capable of attaching themselves to other 
animals, man included, than is commonly supposed ; 
for neither Dexter nor Goldsmith Maid nor Rarus 
