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Show INSTINCT THAT SAVED A LIFE. Thoroughbred Horse Refused to 8tep ( on Body In Roadway. Storlos of tno wrsdom of animals are not fow In tho present day, when tho -i humane societies ure doing so much to promote tho rights of our dumb I ) brothren, yet each now talo la not without Its own peculiar lntorest. R Tho following truo story concerns a fj horso belonging to a man living In Worcester, Mass., writes Mrs. A. H. Knowlton, In Our Dumb Animals. Princo was a thoroughbred, his nnt- j urally fine instincts sharpened and rendered moro ncute by his training, I for he had known llfo on tho race track, until some slight accident un fitted him for that career and trans-formed trans-formed him into u carriage horso. Ho was being driven homeward one ovenlng in winter when dusk was fast rendering evon nearby objects lnvls- . lblc. Suddenly ho stopped short, trom-bllng trom-bllng all over. In vain his driver urged him to pro cccd. Princo refused to stir, and tho quivering of his muscles Increased. At last tho driver loft his seat to dls-cover dls-cover tho cnuso of this unusual bo-havlor. bo-havlor. It wus soon explained. Just ! In front of tho horso In fact almost ' beneath his upraised foot lay a worn- jH nn who had slipped, fallen and was t unablo to rlso. - To avoid jlDfng hor Injury that splendid animal had resolutely held up : his faro foot for more than a mlnuto. j No wonder he trembled from the H strain of his unaccustomed position, |