SAVED BY A HORSE.

Auckland Star, Volume XLVIII, Issue 143, 16 June 1917, Page 15

SAVED BY A HORSE.

S'H.rHRII rA&BJEn OFF THE B.VTTLBFIBIjD. Auliuhlx. particularly dogs aim horses. :ir» playing their part v . n the baltjetteld* or Kurope. An InNrfeut ilhisrrallng tn c intelligence und sagacity ,vf tho | 1O r«e l» told by a lori-eepondeut uf the "Horagehocra , Jour. Ambrose Perlcboii. a French soldier, was lying on the oattlottold. Wg | ess shattered by a German i|Ulok-flrer. His- comrade" were unable to Klre him attention, uirlns t" the faei that Utey weve hard prewvrt. When nirht came on ihe soldier hoaiTi near him the he ivy ureal bins of a greal while horse, which was sraxlns "ii iho grass. The horse w.is riderless and I'eri-c-hon B-liistle.l to it hiiil hegan In stroke It kludly. The horse whinnied with pleasure. Periehon was ixnverl««e to move his lei?. Tlie animal seemed lo undorstiind. ror it fell on Us knees beside him. held i:s head over His breost, and remainefl motionless. Then it jror up and walked around the .<■>!- Aier. Suddenly It stopped. snilTed tno woundel man flit over, and then soizlnc his leather belt in iff teeth. It lifted him fr"m the ground and w.ilked oft". When the horse Hopped in (he arivanrei l'reiii-li linen at daybreak its human burden \v.li* little more thnn alive, btit Toniinr care 1 ii.Ts since hrouzht him round, and lie Is now crinvalesoent. His s-erceant says the animal which sared the soldier'? life was berore the w«r in a German circus, where it per-1 formed Iα the pantomime known as "Tne Arab and Hte P'althful Steetl." A