Saved Seagull
HORSE’S PRESENCE OF MIND A remarkable story of the horse’s presence of mind comes from the Isle of Wight. There is no doubt that a horse is highly intelligent, and this is one more witness of it. One morning, not long ago, on Mr F. H. Ballard’s farm, at Newchurch, the carter was ploughing with Prince and Duke, two horses, when they suddenly stopped halfway across the field, a most unusual thing for them to do. The surprised carter tried hard to coax them forward, but the horses merely looked round, and on going to see what was the matter the carter found a sea-gull in the furrow, trapped by a huge clod of soil pressing on its wing. He released the bird, which went on its way, and Prince and Duke carried on, needing no coaxing to pull the plough again.
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Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 14 (Supplement)
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144Saved Seagull Waikato Times, Volume 127, Issue 21176, 27 July 1940, Page 14 (Supplement)
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