Camp, May 28, 1863.
I am expecting another horse out of town, — a horse which I
have just bought in expectation of selling Nig. Nig is very pleasant, but has
not quite as much character (obstinacy, perverseness) as I like, — I do not
fancy horses who do not at the outset resist, but they must be intelligent
enough to know when they are conquered, and to recognize it as an advance in
their civilization.
SOURCE: Edward Waldo Emerson, Life and Letters of
Charles Russell Lowell, p. 249
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