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and subdued by kind treatment when the reverse would only have 
elicited an evil return, and made those propensities naturally bad 
a great deal worse. In the horse species this is every day ren¬ 
dered so striking and obvious that it hardly needs, so far as this 
animal is concerned—and he, after all, is concerned the most—we 
repeat, it hardly needs an example : one in illustration, however, 
we cannot refrain from giving here; one that, although it occurred 
many years ago, remains so vividly impressed upon our mind that 
even at the moment we are writing it seems as fresh as ever in 
our recollection. 
Among the number of horses recruited annually for the service 
of the Artillery’, in the time of the war in the Peninsula, was one 
in particular who turned out so unconquerably vicious that no rod 
or torture the rough-rider had in store for such offenders as himself 
could bend or break his haughty and fiery temper. From a trick 
he had of either running his rider against some wall or paling, and 
so crushing his leg, or, that failing, of lying down and rolling upon 
him, no man at length durst mount him at all. By way of substi¬ 
tute, the image of a man was made, by stuffing a soldier’s apparel 
with straw, and that set upon his back. At length, after long and 
fruitless trials of enforcing obedience, the animal was given up as 
“ incurably vicious,” to be cast out of the service and sold by auc¬ 
tion. Colonel Quist, the maitre de manege of that day of the Ord¬ 
nance, hearing of all this, requested that the horse, instead of being 
sold, might be transferred over to his troop. This was done; and 
no sooner done, than a plan of treatment, directly the contrary of 
that to which the animal had been so long and so uselessly sub¬ 
jected, was adopted by the Colonel, a most humane kind-hearted 
person. Six months had not passed before truly wonderful changes 
were observed in the vicious horse. He not only carried his rider, 
the Colonel, with complacency and good humour, but actually went 
down upon his knees, on certain signs being given him, as though 
in gratitude to his master, for him to mount and to dismount. And 
ever after he went, as being the most beloved horse of the Colonel’s 
numerous stud, by the name of “ The Darling.” This narrative, to 
the full, bears out the truthful observation of Mr. Pettitt, that 
“ There can be no doubt whatever that merciful and kind treat¬ 
ment towards the brute creation is demanded of us by the Christ- 
