80 STORIES ABOUT HORSES.

to the road, they sometimes become the most
knowing animals imaginable. Here is an ac-
count of one, which I lately saw in a Scotch
newspaper.

“«A friend of ours,’ says the editor of the
Dumfries Courier, ‘ who travels a good deal in
the course of the year, visiting in his rounds
many out of the way corners, where inns and
milestones are alike scarce, has a mare that
follows him like a pet dog, and fares very much
as he does himself. Her name is Jess, and
when a feed of corn is difficult to be got at, she
can make shift to breakfast, dine, or sup, on oat
or barley-cakes, seasoned with a slice from the
gudewife’s cheese. Though her staple beverage
is drawn from the pump-trough, the crystal
well, or the running brook, she can tipple at
times as well as her betters, particularly when
the weather is either sultry and oppressively
hot, or disagreeably raw and cold. In the
warm days she prefers something cooling, and
very lately we had the honour of treating her to