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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 he 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 hanks 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 he in ; for now he would 
gallop round the hut, making the whole valley ring with his 
piteous appeals, and then would timidly approach it, peeping 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 companion 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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