the snow, as our horses do on the grass, and in the bitterest cold weather, stand night after night in the yard, as well as the stable. The sagacious Hunter. In the year 1798, three gentlemen were coursing in the vicinity of Kingsclere, in Hampshire, when, from a distance, they discovered a horse gallopping violently towards them without a rider, and the bridle tied round his neck: on his coming up with them on a fallow ground they were beating, he immediately fell in with them, and took an usual distance for half an hour, in complete order, (though many endeavours were made to whip him back) in which time a hare was found sitting. The horse immediately stopped at the sound of the accustomed word Soho! and when puss was turned out, he closely followed the greyhounds with much caution, though with great resolution; and having early in the course had a five-bar gate shut against him, which he meant to have forced through, he cleared a very high hedge and bank, aud soon took the lead, getting up to the dogs, who soon after killed the hare over a steep hill, where he was found standing quietly by the side of them, who were stretched out extremely fatigued; he having had the full sight and enjoyment of as good and severe a course, as very rarely happens; the hare running upwards of two miles in a very stony and hilly country, before a very capital brace of greyhounds. The horse was afterwards recognized by a servant to be the property of a respectable farmer of Kingsclere, who had turned him loose in a grass field, whilst conversing with his labourers. The expeditious Horse, MR. LAWRENCE, of the Lion Inn, in Shrewsbury, in September, 1784, purchased a grey horse, then five years old, to run in the mail coach; and this excellent animal, though now nineteen years old, continues to perform this severe duty six days every week, with wonderful spirit and activity. From a calculation it appears, that between September, 1784, and September, 1797, he has actually travelled with this vehicle upwards of seventy-seven thousand miles. It would be no reflection on Mr. L.'s humanity, were he to permit this old servant to retire upon a pension. Sporting Magazine, 1798. The instinctive Post-Horse. AN old grey horse belonging to the Lion Inn, at Shrewsbury, and which (at the posting price of four-pence halfpenny per mile) earned for its owner, £1443 15s. was some days since turned into a field adjoining the London road. The mail guard blowing his born, as was usual, near the place, the poor animal ran with full speed towards the spot, but being blind from age, struck his head against a brick building, and instantly expired. Sporting Magazine, 1798, The generous Dutchman and his spi rited Horse. VOLTEMAD CORNELIUS, a Dutchman, and an inhabitant of the Cape of Good Hope, whose intrepid philan thropy impelled him to risk, and (as it unfortunately proved) to lose his own life in consequence of heroic efforts to save the lives of others. This generous purpose in a great degree he effected, in the year 1773, when a Dutch ship was driven on shore in a storm, near Table Bay, not far from the South River Fort. Returning from a ride, the state of the vessel, and the cries of the crew strongly interested him in their behalf: though unable to swim, he provided himself with a rope, and being mounted on a powerful horse, remarkably muscular in its form, plunged with the noble animal into the sea, which rolled in waves sufficiently tremendous to daunt a man of common fortitude. This worthy man with his spirited horse, approached the ship's side, near enough to enable the sailors to lay hold of the end of a cord which he threw out to them: by this method and their grasping the horse's tail, he |