30
9. BITING 34
10. TOILING 38
11. HUNTING 42
12. DUTY 46
13. REARING 50
14. SAGACITY 54
15. BOLTING 58
16. PATIENCE 62
17. BUCKING 66
18. PERSEVERANCE 70
19. JIBBING 74
20. SERVICE 78
21. SHYING 82
22. CURIOSITY 86
23. FRIENDSHIP 90
24. OLD AGE 94

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AT PLAY.

Three little foals you see at play.
They romp and sport all through the day,
But sometimes they are most sedate
And try to ape their mothers' gait.

They wheel and race and leap and prance,
And sometimes they are said to dance:
But always they will stand and stare
At anyone who passes there.

SCHOOLING.

The horse, like us, must go to school
To learn by precept and by rule.
Like us, he does not love the work,
Like us, he's not allowed to shirk.

This little instrument you see
Strapped on his back, shaped like a V,
Is a "Dumb Jockey" meant to train
The horse to bear the bit and rein.

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CLEVERNESS.

Billy, the circus pony, can
Distinguish letters like a man:
He'll hold up for you in the ring
His D for Dunce and K for King.

With P for Pony he will show
That he his family name doth know;
And he will find the C for clown
And at his feet will put it down.

WILLINGNESS.

Although this horse is doing all he can to drag his heavy load up the
hill, the lazy boy who is walking beside him, with one hand in his
pocket, beats him cruelly with the stick which he carries. The boy is
too silly or too careless to see how willingly the horse is working.

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WILFULNESS.

A horse's great red-letter days
Are days of hunting, when his ways
Are often very wilful. Here
See this John Gilpin in great fear.

He came out just to see the Meet,
But the horse thought he would compete
With horses, hounds and fox for place,
And led the man this madcap race.

INTELLIGENCE.

On the prairies in the Far West of America a man lost his way. He had no
water to drink, although both he and his horse