18 THE MIND OP THE HORSE 



In tlie sixteentlL century there was a special 

 place kept, provided with plenty of straw, in which 

 the horses, on returning from work could roll oyer 

 to their hearts' content and remove the stiflfness 

 given to their limbs by fatigue. 



The horse feels irritation and anger if acted 

 towards in a way which displeases him; he feels 

 envy if another horse receives food whilst he lias 

 none. He feels sometimes antipathy or hatred to- 

 wards a given horse without an intelligible reason; 

 in this manner several horses occasionally come 

 to an understanding against one of their number 

 and it is requisite to separate them in order to 

 prevent them from injuring him. Some horses 

 hate all other horses and injure them on tlieir 

 approach. 



The ordinary horse is much more subject to 

 fear and is much more obstinate and difficult to 

 persuade than a horse of a good breed. He resem 

 bles the ass, who seems rather indifferent to both 

 good and bad treatment. All the instincts are more 

 poAverful and acute in the wild horse and in that 

 reared in the open air than in the domestically 



