A HORSE-STORY.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Six,—Your story told by Sir Robert Peel of the dog- which saved his master from two intending highway robbers, is similar to one which I heard about thirty years ago from an English medical man who had been in the Navy, as related by his father. His father was agent for one of the colleges at Cambridge, and had collected a considerable sum of college rents. Leaving Cambridge on horseback, at a certain point in the road his horse refused to advance, and at last, after much sparring, it leaped a dyke on the side of the road, and carried its master home across country. Some time later, two men were sentenced to transportation at Cambridge, and seeing the college agent in Court, asked leave to speak, and then confessed that they had lain in wait for him on the road, on the occasion above referred to, when they knew he was. carrying the college rents, but that he had escaped by not turning up. It is more difficult to explain this knowledge on the part of the horse, than the knowledge of the dog.—I am,
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