Show what AnIt animal nAls shy at young horses can be led up to a sack lying on the ground and induced to pass it by letting them smell it and find out that it really is a sack and not the protean thing whatever it may be which illusion conjures up for them once the writer saw a very quick and pretty instance of experiment by touch made by a frightened pony it was being driven as leader in a pony tandem and stopped short in front of where the rails of a steam tramway crossed the road it first smelled the near rail and then quickly gave it two taps with its hoof after this it was wag salis satisfied fled and crossed the line on the other hand a donkey always a tried to jump the shadows c of tree trunks on an the road though a sim aim liar ilar experiment of touch would havi shown that these were as unreal as the tram rail was substantial lastly Tast ly no horse which has once knocked its head against the top of a stable doorway seems quite able to get rid of the I 1 illusion that there then sits up in the top cc all doorways an invisible comein which will hit him again next time bi gom goes through heuft heade the troublesome esom and sometimes incurable habit 0 of horses jibbing bibbing jib bing when taken out ol oi the stable london spectator |