News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1890-11-27
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boldly pass the piles much higher on
the right that were there last year.
Give them their heads and they will
walk straight into the door-yard and
up to the doorstep miles away,
where they always got maple sugar,
last year. In fact, they begin men
tally to scent it from afar as soon as
they have permission to turn on to
the road that leads there, and, in the
language of the groom, "get new
legs under them" long before they
see the quaint old house.
1t has been said that in heaven
there will have to be two uncommu-
nlcatlng divisions, one for parents
and one for the teachers. 1t always
seems to me that my horses have two
separate store-houses of knowledge
III their minds, one for the city and
one for the country When they 90
to the city they shut up the country
one, They do not "pluck any leaf
shrub, or flower" They consider
COWS and oxen wild and terrible ami
r1als, and they wonder at no kind of
a vehicle, however uncOuth. But in
the country they keen all the maDles.
blrches, and willows from PROJECTING
too far into the road; they saw to
the cows. : You are my sisters or.
rather, You are of no account at
adjust get out of my way" and
they curiously and with a sort of
lottly air survey the teams which
pass.
Mere memory is not high faculty
OF the mind, but the memory of
which L speak involves the laws of
association. both as to space and
time, and implies also Judgment and
reasoning. What does it imply when
my Mac always turns to the right
for a vehicle that is coming toward
him, and always to the left if he is
going to pass one that is going in
the same direction? and this last he
does without any signal, nav. often
in gentle opposition to my sugges-
tion that there is plenty of room on
the right side. In either case he pre-
pares to do what he knows is proper
long before he reaches the vehicle.
We are very apt to forget what sim
pie actions like this imply.
If | allow that the horse cannot
well .harbOr more than one idea at a
time in his head, shall not be say
ing anything which will put him be-
| low IL majority of the human race
| think that this is true, and it be-
comes very useful at times, for if you
can only make him think of his ears
by touching them lightly with the
whip, he ceases for a time to fear a
train on the elevated railroad. To
say that he cannot think at the same
time of his head and his tail should
not degrade him in the eyes of the
men who are in the habit of carrying
canes under their arms or of swing
ing them on the city sidewalks. do
not think that the horse possesses
any faculty of imitation, but that
would ally him closely with the mon
key; and it is certainly higher to in
vent, which he does, than to copy.
He does not, as a rule, like solitude.
Re does not readily give his conf
! Gence. but when once given IL is gem
orally continued. He has q consid-
feFabie isSssa of diplomacy, ana often
tries in that way to secure his clear
! ly defined end. He likes to have his
own way, but he likes really better
to have a mistress, and when he
finds that he has one, he has the
most fascinating way of yielding
to her commands or even to her
lightest wish.
This is but a very superficial sketch
of the horse nature in general, but ii
is the child nature, and must be
taken into account if he would ride
with either pleasure or safety.