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conquerors show by their carriage the pride they are inspired 

 with ; the vanquished, on the contrary, are sad and humiliated. 

 Sympathy may also be added, as the following incident, taken 

 from a well-known periodical, will prove : — 



" On a cattle station, where the narrator lived, near Ipswich, 

 Queensland, he often noticed two old mares (very old), — the one 

 had a fine foal by her side, the other had none. For many years 

 these aged mares had run together ; in winter they sought the 

 ridges for shelter, in summer the banks of creeks were their 

 resort. A deserted shepherd's hut stood by a creek, and on 

 nearing it one day his attention was arrested by the state of 

 agony and despair the foal seemed to be in ; for now he would 

 gallop roimd the hut, making the whole valley ring with his 

 piteous appeals, and then would timidly approach it, peejaing in 

 at an opening, and then, as if in utter despair, scamper back to 

 the creek. When our authority came to the hut one of the mares 

 was outside, standing still, and seemed to take little or no notice 

 of him, while the mother of the foal was lying down (quite natu- 

 rally) inside the building : her posture was just that of a tired 

 horse trying to rest every limb at once. Her ears, inclining 

 forwards, gave her the appearance of being asleep. Feeling sure 

 she was asleep, he touched her with his whip — no move ; again — 

 no stir. So, on closer inspection, he saw she was dead — a death 

 so easy and free from pain that she must have ceased to breathe 

 while sleeping soundly. Her old comj^anion remained upon the 

 same spot, the foal increasing his speed and the eagerness of his 

 cries just in proportion to his hunger. Three days afterwards, 

 accompanied by a stockman, he saw only the foal outside the hut, 

 the old faithful friend had herself gone and laid down close along- 

 side her former companion, and, strange to say, was quite dead 

 also. Their two frames lay, one near the other, in the deserted 

 hut, and the foal has joined a mob of bush horses, and seems to 

 have quite forgotten his kind old mother." 



The intelligence of this noble animal is evident in many ways. 

 For instance, in the Arab tent, where it is esteemed and loved as 

 if it were a member of the family ; or in the circus, where it 

 performs a series of prodigies of strength or grace in obedience to 

 the voice of its trainer. The most restive and vicious Horses have 

 been known to submit to the control of children, when the bit, 



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