190 STORIES ABOUT HORSES.

tensive plains which lie towards the Cape of
Good Hope. Their watchfulness is such, that
they will suffer nothing to come near them, and
their swiftness is so great that they easily leave
every pursuer far behind.

“From the experiments which have been
made, it seems unlikely that the zebra ever can
be so tamed as to perform the services of the
horse or the ass; though one which was unfor-
tunately burnt at the Lyceum, near Exeter
Change, some years ago, was so docile, that
it allowed its keeper to put children on its back,
without exhibiting any signs of resentment.
On one occasion it is said that a person even
rode it from the Lyceum to Pimlico, a distance
of about a mile and a half. It was, however,
descended from half-reclaimed parents. An
other, which was brought from the Cape of
Good Hope, by General Dundas, in 1803, and
which was afterwards purchased, and deposited
in the Tower Menagerie, became more docile
than the generality of zebras brought to Europe,