128 HORSES AND ROADS. 



fractional part of an inch of a bright, smooth, 

 slippery iron shoe. Then the shouting, swearing, 

 kicking, thrashing, stoppage of traffic, and other 

 outrages to the feelings of humane people, would 

 disappear ; and all this would not only not have 

 cost anyone a penny, but both ratepayers and horse 

 owners would have positively economised, even if 

 we say nothing of the diminished liability to street 

 accidents. It is true that horse slaughterers would 

 find business slacker : it must be a good wind that 

 blows no one any harm. 



Ludgate Hill, being a principal thoroughfare, 

 falls more under notice than other streets ; but let 

 anyone visit the small streets running up from the 

 river. These are paved with stone more slippery 

 than wood, and the slipping upon it, from its not 

 being level, shakes and injures the horses more than 

 when they slip upon wood. These streets, not being 

 in the road of the generality of journalists, remain 

 unnoticed. Horses must be the meekest of animals 

 when they allow themselves to be induced to enter 

 them a second time. Chien echaude craint I'eau 

 froide ; the horse is even more docile and tractable, 

 meeker, and less easily scared than the dog. 



