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memory, 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, hut 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 kindly is a 
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 
they 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 all 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 suffered. 
Many a Horse is restive wdth persons who have misused it, while 
perfectly docile with others, proving a consciousness of good 
and evil, and a natural insubordination against tyranny and in- 
justice. 
Emulation they also strongly possess. In Horse-racing the 
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