ANIMALS AND THEIR CLOTHES.
[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIE,—In your issue of July 19th you assume that horses may be proud of their bonnets or headgear. May I give you an example ? All was bustle in the barracks ; the inspecting officer• of the district had made a surprise visit; but at last the regiment was ready in the barrack-yard, with its old Sergeant-Major on his old lorse (both having been in the regiment beyond memory) to lead. The word was given, but the old horse would not stir ; his master with grief spurred him, men rushed from the stables and pulled and pushed him, the Colonel rode up using language enough to move any horse, but ineffectually, until the old wife of the old Sergeant-Major heard the row, snatched something from a peg, and rushed out. The old horse had his eye on her quarters, saw her coming, freed himself from his persecutors, advanced meekly to her, held down his head, and she fastened his front round his ears with a graceful curl on the forehead. It had been made out of his tail when he became bald, and he always wore it on state occasions, although forgotten this time in the hurry; but he was not the horse to go without it.—I am, Sir,
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