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The anecdote is related by a celebrated pomologist , concerning a horse employed in his nurseries for over fifteen years . His name was Old Charley . I was so much interested in the account of his sagacity , that I went to see him . The good animal was used for ploughing between lines of trees from three feet and a half to four feet apart , and moved with such precision and care as to run the plough and cultivator as near as possible to the trees , without ever hitting or injuring one of them . His owner told me Old Charley would go straight between the lines , turning at the end without any motion or word from the driver , with as much accuracy and skill as any human being could display , and without stepping over , or entangling his feet in , the traces in any manner whatever . '' -LSB- Illustration : STAR DANCING TO MUSIC . Page 53 . -RSB-