A Horse Getting A Chile Out Of A Pond

A French paper givea the follovving striking instance of the affeetionate instincts m animáis : On a small tarín in ono ot' tiie Prenoh departmenls waa a young horst' whose temper was so untraotable that all attempts at taming him failed. The farmer wovild haVa parted with it but tor lis youngest ciiild, a boy ubout six ye. us oíd, to whom, stranso to vi v, th.'t unitual showed a strange liking He would coma to hia young friend an 1 rccive food fro:n liis hand. Ho seeiuud pleahod to have bis shapgy nt'clc patted tiy the Üttlé fellow. Ono duy :ill the ad uit members of the faraily weie out iu the üeld excejitiiijj; thu ruóther, who boing eugaged in the house, let't thu chiid playing in thé yard, wheu he teil into a pond, and would have been drowned but ior the timely aid ot' hia trienil the horse. The anim il happenins to be loóse in the stable, aud hearing the familiar voice, eiiie out t a, trot, and pefctiviug tha poor child Btrugnling.i seized him by tb;; jfannents and drew him out ut the very moineut the uiothercamu to look after him.