Excerpt from The Horse and His Ways: Stories of Man and His Best Friend It is asserted that horses with a broad after head, and the ears far asunder, are naturally bolder than those whose head is narrow above the forelock. This assertion is in all prob ability correct, for there is no reason why cerebral development should not influence the character of a horse as well as that of a man; but much, of course, depends upon judicious training. Some horses, says an intelligent writer on the subject, habituated to war, will drop their head, pick at grass in the midst of fire, smoke, and the roar of cannon; others never entirely cast Off their natural timidity. We have witnessed them groaning, he continues, or endeavouring to lie down when they found escape impossible, at the fearful sound of shot. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.