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Show THE ASS. -- We all talk of the ass as the stupidest of the browsers of the field; yet if any one shuts up a donkey in the same enclosure with half a dozen horses of the finest blood, and the party escape, it is infallibly the poor donkey that has led the way. It is he alone that penetrates the secret of the bolt and latch. Often have we stood at the other side of the hedge, contemplating a whole troop of blood-mares and their offspring, patiently waiting while the donkey was snuffling over a piece to which all but he felt themselves incompetent. Donkey is far from lacking his share of natural instinct. |