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accident, and strains and other evils frequently occurred, 

 which required a peculiarly severe mode of treatment, and 

 the horse was unavoidably made to suffer dreadfully. Per- 

 haps the evil was never perfectly remedied. The animal was 

 never competent to undertake his former work; but he was 

 attached to the heavier coaches, or transplanted to those con- 

 cerns of atrocious cruelty, the night coaches. Then com- 

 menced that loss of character, and diminution of usefulness, 

 and increase of misery, which were the fate of thousands of 

 horses every year. This is a picture of the stage-coach horse 

 on the bad roads, and under indifferent management. 



Kailroads have now been introduced in almost every di- 

 rection, and the quickness and economy of the journey have, 

 in many parts of the country, comparatively destroyed the 

 business of the postmaster. The horses passed into other 

 hands, and sank to more degrading and painful labors; but 

 of late their sky is again somewhat brightening. The expor- 

 tation of horses of this class to the Continent has increased 

 to a degree that never could have been anticipated. These 

 horses are destined for the cavalry service of different coun- 

 tries; they are such as could not be procured on the Conti- 

 nent; and the work that will be exacted from them will not, 

 in the majority of instances, ever develop their latent imper- 

 fections. 



Of the sad cruelties practiced on the hackney-coach 

 horses, on the day and night cab-horses, and on those that 

 belong to the costermonger and inferior tradesmen, nothing 

 is here recorded; but if the dog, a beast of draught in so 

 many other countries, is we scarcely know why not 

 allowed to be employed in this occupation, there ought to be 

 some strong enactments to protect those poor old debilita- 

 ted, half-starved animals on whom the whole labor falls. 



There is only space for a few remarks on some of the 

 smaller breeds of horses. 



THE GALLOWAY. 



The Galloway derives its name irom the district in which 

 it is bred, in the south of Scotland. 



The true Galloway is now seldom met with. It was de- 

 stroyed in the fruitless attempt tq increase the size of the 

 animal, and to retain all its peculiar good qualities as a pony. 

 The small horses that are sold under the name of Galloways, 

 are mostly from Wales or the New Forest, and still retain 

 many of the good qualities belonging to Merlin and to Old 



