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Show HABITS OF HORSE AND DONKEY. Easily Traced Back, to Their Most Remote Re-mote Ancestors. Tho ancestors of tlio horse were accustomed ac-customed to loam 'over the plains, where every tuft of grass or bush might conceal tin enemy walling to spring upon them. Under these circumstances cir-cumstances they must often have saved their lives by startliiB quickly back or Jumping lo one side when they mine without warning upon some stiahgo object. This Is a habit which has not left tho animal, even nfter lung years of domostlcatlon. On the other hand, the donkey Is descended de-scended from animals which lived among the hills, vvheio there were nreclnlcca and dangerous declivities, Iirt'eijiieuM anu uiiiikuiuuo uutiunv., and from these conditions resulted his slowness nnd suro footedness. His ancestors wero not so liable to sudden attacks from wild boasts and snakes. Hesldcs, sudden ami wild starts would have been positively dangerous to them. Consequently they learned to avoid the very trick which has been so useful to the horse. The habit of eating thistles, which la peculiar alone to tho donkey, Is also descended from these ancestors. In tho dry. hairen localities lo-calities which they Inhabited there was often little food; henco they learned to eat hard, dry and even prickly rlauU when there was nothing else. |