A PONY’S “TABLE” MANNERS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 17894, 14 June 1920, Page 3

A PONY’S “TABLE” MANNERS.

The high intelligence of horses was superbly demonstrated during the war. and some day a lover of the horse will collate the many wonderful incidents in ■which he ployed a leading part. One of these will be the vagaries of a Canadian General’s thoroughbred, which again and again refused to budge to the spur at aimes when there was apparently no evidence of the slightest. danger. Twice he saved his master’s life by deliberate acts of insubordination. The latest, yarn about a pony that had a race track reputation is worth repeating in this connection. Every morning its owner brought this pony into the dining room of the house in which the narrator was billeted, and led him round the table. The pony was offered all sorts of dainties, but he would only touch slices of bread and butter, of which he was inordinately fond. It was not a big room, and there was not much space between the wall and the table, so if he had shown any restlessness the table and all that was on it must have been demolished. He, however, behaved always with the manners of a retriever dog, and only the slices of bread and butter had to be replenished.