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memorj^, these qualities in the Horse are essentially modified by 

 education and climate. And for the full development of his 

 intelligence, and his high qualities, it is requisite that Man should 

 be his companion and his friend, as well as his master, but never 

 his tyrant. Under the whip of an unfeeling driver, the Horse 

 becomes brutalized, and rapidly degenerates, morally even more 

 than physically. 



The attachment of the Horse for those who treat it kindlj' is a 



Fig. 52. — Fifteen years. 



Fig. 63.— Thirty years. 



well-known fact ; anecdotes proving this are numerous and 

 varied, but our limits are too circumscribed to relate more than 

 one, the authenticity of which cannot be doubted. 



In 1809, in one of the insurrections, the inhabitants of the 

 Tyrol captured fifteen Horses from the Bavarian troops, on which 

 chey mounted their own Men. An encounter afterwards took 

 place between the hostile forces ; but at the commencement of it 

 the Bavarian chargers, which had changed their masters, recog- 

 nised their former trumpet-call and the uniform of their old regi- 

 ment, and in an instant darted off at full gallop, in spite of aU the 

 efforts of their riders, whom they bore in triumph into the midst 

 of the Bavarian ranks, where the Tyrolese were at once made 

 prisoners. 



The influence of memory on the Horse is also shown by the 

 sense it retains of injuries and ill-treatment it has sufiered. 

 Many a Horse is restive with persons who have misused it, while 

 perfectly docile with others, proving a consciousness of good 

 and evn, and a natural insubordination against tyranny and in- 

 justice. 



Emulation they also strongly possess. In Horse-racing the 



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