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you require ?" and they would obey to the letter. Have you not 

 found it so ? Who does any better than obey to the letter ? Then 

 are we responsible for the character of these men outside ? Not 

 at all, in my opinion. We want the fast horse. You like, every 

 one of you, to see a good horse trot; the ladies like to see a horse 

 trot; the young and the aged all like it. Well, that is all right. 

 We all, I repeat, admire to see a fine horse. 



Now, I ask again, how are we going to get along without the 

 horse trots ? Here is a large portion of the community who call 

 for it, and we are all pleased with it. My friend, Mr. Thing, 

 wants us to regulate it. So do I. He must do it in his place ; 

 you must do it in your places. Every one must see that there is 

 order, and good order. I do not apprehend that our morals are 

 going to suffer. I do not feel afraid of it. I hope it will not be 

 the case ; if I thought it would, I would oppose them ; but I can- 

 not see it myself. 



The lecturer alluded to the ladies riding. I never liked that. I 

 should not want my wife or daughter to ride on the grounds. If 

 they wanted to, I should not oppose it ; but I was very glad when 

 that practice was abolished. But it is utterly impossible, at the 

 present day, as men are constituted, to get along without having 

 the fast horse at our agricultural exhibitions. Can we make the 

 show go without it ? No sir, or it will go slow and very feeble. 

 Then let us have the fast horses, but be careful to regulate the 

 matter, and when the horse jockey comes up, treat him as a gen- 

 tleman, while he behaves himself, and make him behave as a gen- 

 tleman, on that fair ground, if he never did before, and never 

 expects to again. 



Gov. Brown of Mass. I should like to ask Mr. Martin one 

 question. The objection is sometimes made to trotting or racing 

 horses on the track, that it is an act of cruelty to the animal. It 

 never struck me so, but as Mr. Martin seems to have had a good 

 deal of experience in this matter, and to have given it considerable 

 observation also, I should like to ask whether, in his judgment, 

 the horses are really injured by a fair trot on the track ? 



Mr. Martin. I do not think it hurts the horse, if lie is taken 

 care of after the trot, any more than it hurts the master. You can 

 drive a horse for an hour, but if then you stop and hitch him to 

 a post while you go in to drink, and neglect him, you can spoil 

 the animal. 



Mr. Williams. I would not be understood as wishing to rule 



