82 THE HUMANE CART-HORSE AND THE CHILD.

On swept the horses, but when the leader of the troop
saw the little child lying in his path he suddenly stopped,
and so did the others behind him. Then stooping his head,
he seized the infant’s clothes with his teeth, and carefully
lifted it to the side of the road, laying it gently and quite
unhurt on the grass.) He and his companions then resumed
their gallop in the lane, without knowing that they had done
a kindly and wonderful act.

Learn a lesson from those wild Irish horses. As you
hurry along in the joyousness of youth, look before you to
see whether there lies not on your road some one who needs
your help. Believe me, in your path through life you will
find many poor little ones who require to be lifted up
and placed in safety. Do not be less obedient to the hints
of duty than were those dumb animals to the reason or the
instinct in their breasts.

 

THE HUMANE CART-HORSE AND THE
CHILD.

A CARTER in Strathmiglo, Fifeshire, had an old horse, which
was as friendly with his family as a dog could have been.
He used to play with the children, and when they were
running about between his legs he would never move, for fear
of doing them an injury.

Once, when dragging a loaded cart through a narrow lane
near the village, a young child, not one of his owner's family,
happened to be playing on the road, and thoughtlessly ran right
before him, when, had it not been for his care, it must have