en words. Should this really be
possible without even the slightest kind of designating
movement?----The following case, again, I believe is undoubtedly
based upon a misinterpretation. Redding[76] relates concerning his
nineteen-year old horse that he himself had owned for thirteen
years, and had always kept in single harness,----that this horse not
only understood the meaning of a long list of words, such as:
bureau, post-office, school, churchyard, apple, grass, etc., but he
also knew a number of persons by name, as well as their places of
residence. If he were told in advance to halt at a certain
residence, he would do it without any further aid from the driver.
For this reason the happy owner felt certain that the animal
possessed a high order of intelligence and "that this horse does
reason." What sources of error were here operative, whether signs
were given by means of reins, or head or arm movements, could be
determined only by a careful examination of the case.

And finally we would exercise some reserve in entertaining the
suggestions for the acoustic education of horses which have come
from various sources. Colonel Spohr[77] whom we have just been
mentioning, thinks that it would not be a difficult matter to get a
horse to respond with a walk to one smack of the lips, with a trot
to two smacks, and with a galop to three, and then he could be made
to slacken his pace once more into a trot in response to one
long-drawn "Pst!" and to stop in response to two. Others have gone
even further. Decroix,[78] at one time leader in veterinary affairs
in France, conceived the idea of working out a universal language as
regards the commands that are given to horses, in the humane purpose
of sparing them the whip. He called it "Volapuek hippique." For the
commands "go," "right," "left," and "halt," he suggests these: "Hi!"
"Ha!" "He!" and "Ho!" respectively. From these it was possible to
make eight combinations, such as "Hi! Hi!" for "Trot!" "He! He!" for
"Left about" (while the single "He" was to mean "Forward, to the
left!") "Ho! Ho!" for "Back!" etc. Decroix thought that the whole
system could be inculcated in a very few lessons. He even had a
medal struck which was to be awarded to the driver or rider who
should first exhibit a horse, thus instructed, to the Societe
Nationale d'