THEIR FEED AND THEIR FEET. 15 



and grain remaining untouched or partly eaten. The 

 kind-hearted owner leaves the food in the manger, for 

 his horse to eat when he wants it, and explains to 

 the "women folks" that "Tom" is "off his feed," 

 and they must use " Billy ? " or forego their drive — a 

 little jaunt about town, perhaps, and just what over- 

 fed and underworked Tom needed, while Billy was 

 well enough to stay indoors, if necessary! But of 

 this more will be said further on. 



INSTINCT VS. REASON. 



The intelligence of men, so often and in so many 

 particulars, resembles the instinct of dumb animals, 

 that I find therein an unanswerable argument in favor 

 of the view that the difference between pur reason 

 and theirs is one of degree only. In point of fact, 

 we find instances wherein exceptionally intelligent 

 animals are positively the superiors, in all that gives 

 evidence of logical thinking, of exceptionally unintel- 

 ligent men. It is instinct only (if we are to distin- 

 guish between instinct and reason) which prompts a 

 man to speedily blanket a heated and steaming horse ; 

 it is reason which impels another to refrain from the 

 act. It is instinct which prompts most men to feed 

 their horses just so often and at just such times, 

 irrespective of their work or their physical condition ; 

 it is reason which impels one to withhold a feed, 

 or to give his horse a fast-day, or to reduce the 

 number of his meals, if it should be found from the 

 experience of others that less are better. There are 

 times when the regular " feed," however hungry the 



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