586 VERTEBEATA. 
THE HORSE IN THE PAGEANTRY OF WAR. 
were doing tlieir work properly. The assistant, on these journeys, rode a horse which had for a 
long time carried a field-officer, and, though aged, still possessed a great deal of spirit. One day, 
as he was passing near a town of considerable size which lay on the line of road, the volunteers 
were at drill on the common, and the instant that Solus — that was the name of the horse — heard 
the drum he leaped the fence, and was speedily at that post in front of the volunteers which would 
.havB 'been .-occupied by the commanding ofiicer of a regiment on parade, or at drill ; nor could the 
:rider'by any means get him off the ground until the volunteers retired to the town. As long as 
•they kept the field the horse took the proper place of a commanding ofiicer during all their 
maneuvers, and he marched at the head of the corps into the town, prancing in military style, 
as cleverly as his stiff"ened legs would allow, to the great amusement of the volunteers and spec- 
tators, and the no small annoyance of the clerk, who did not feel very highly honored by Solus 
making a colonel of him against his will." 
In addition to this high spirit in the horse, which echoes so well the fiery impulses in the bosom 
of man, and which has placed him in the very foreground of the more active and progressive por- 
tions of human history, whether amid the appalling horrors of the battle-field, or the more entic- 
ing scenes of martial pomp and pageantry, there are other circumstances which render this ani- 
mal an object of peculiar interest. It has been said that "so far as we can predicate morality of 
a creature unendowed with an immortal spirit, the horse has a moral history. Many animals live 
in a state of perhaps more close domestication than the horse does, and the dog especially, being 
one which in a state of nature requires more art and stratagem for finding his food, is capable of 
evincing his .attachment to his master in a greater variety of ways. The dog will fight for his 
