St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1890-03-22

same animal that will plunge wildly
from the stable, buck-jumping and snort
ing, II the groom BE- on his back, will
never fail to walk slowly and tenderly,
under precisely the same circumstances
otherwise. if he carries = woman. Such
conduct as this, when it is found in hu-
man beings. is supposed to denote a
royal nature. On the whole, it has al
| ways seemed to me that we might be
much more humiliated at being forced
to acknowledge our kinship with some
Of our nearer relations.
We must never forget that in the case
of animals the pupil can not rise higher
than the teacher, and that the teacher
must be thoughtful and intelligent He
must not only feel kinship with his
pupil. but he must recognize in him an
individual character. and must adapt
himself to that No two horses are ex-
actly alike in character any more than
two people. With regard to the point
OF strongly marked individual character,
the following stories may serve as H.
lustrations: My MAC" can not endure
to be left alone, and nothing more is
necessary to make him perfectly miser-
able and almost beside himself than tc
have his companions desert him on the
road. or TO be left solitary in the stable,
In the former case he becomes evident
ly anxious and nervous, and cries in the
most pitiful way till he catches sight Of
them again, when the cry be-
comes . relieved and joyful whin-
ny, and the unwilling and uncer-
tain gait glad gallop. In the latter
case he never ceases his restless motion
and his cry of loneliness, his eyes look
wild, and he pulls his head impatiently
away from any caressing touch. He had
been sick for week, so that one day
did not want him to 60 far or fast and
sent the other horses out before him,
half an hour after they had gone, taking
him down the river road. He was very
nervous and uneasy, would walk for
awhile, and then throw up his head and
break into trot or . canter. When he
came to the watering-trough he put his
head down, but then suddenly concluded
that he had no time to stop, wheeled
sharply and went on, still as il the force
impeling him were some attraction iE
front of him. This continued. l all the
time bringing him down to . walk. and
he over and over trying to break of, till
we reached q fork in the road, and
turned him to the right. He obeyed the
rein. and then stopped entirely and gave
one of his despairing cries. However,
propose to be mistress and to direct as tc
the route, and so he had to 60 on, short
ly after turning and going quietly back
on the same road by which we had come.
At supper l inquired which road the
other horses had taken, and found that
they had gone down the river road, but
at the fork had turned to the left across
the bridge. The conclusion was ire
Mac had been anxiously fol-
lowing their trail and trusting to catch
up with them till the scent failed and
despair succeeded to hope. My Dick has
been seen politely passing hay from his
own pile to strange horse that stood
face to face with him in the stable, and
whose manger was empty. But it would
never have occurred to either of these
horses to do what the other did.-Anna
c. Brackett in Harpcr's Magazine.