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MUSIC AND ITS EFFECT ON ANIMALS. tro THE EDITOR OF

THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—To prove that horses can distinguish tunes, let me relate an anecdote given to me by Harley the comedian. He was walking down the Strand with a brother-actor, who saw in a cab a parti-coloured horse which he thought had belonged to Astley's Circus. They went up to him and patted him, at the same time humming a tune familiar at the Circus. At once the animal began to dance on his fore-legs, as had been his

custom for many years.—I am, Sir, &c., B. S.