CAELYLE'S HORSES.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 1, 17 June 1882, Page 3

CAELYLE'S HORSES.

Carlyle told me a story of these two horses, illustrative of the sanse of humor in animals. I cannot date it either by day or year, therefore I give it ie a note. They had a vicious old sow, who was the tyrant and the terror qf the farmyard. One day Carlyle was smoking his pipe outside his front door, when he heard shrieks of rage and agony combined from the back of the house. He went round to see what was the matter. A deep drain had been opened across the yard, the bottom of which was stiff clay. Into (his by some unlucky curiosity the sow had been tempted to decend, and being there found a difficult injgetting out. The horses were loose. The pony saw the opportunity—the sow was struggling to extricate herself. The pony stood 07er her, ana at each effort cuffed her back again with a stroke of the fore hoof. Tba sow was screaming more with fury than pain. Larry (the horse) stood by watching the performance and smiling approval, nodding his head every time that the beast was knocked back into the clay, with (as Carlyle declared) the most obvious and exquisite perception of the nature of the situation. "From Froude's Life of Carlyle."