ii6 BREAKING, 



eternally palTing each other in crowds without 

 thofe dreadful accidents fo natural to exped: 

 and fortunately fo little heard of. 



It is really a matter of concern, that a cuf- 

 tom fo inconliderate and abfurd fliould ever 

 have gained ground, as the pracStice of inflantly 

 heating and goading a horfe upon his only 

 method of exprcffing a momentary and na- 

 tural impulfe of fear, at any ftrange or un- 

 common objedt that may come fuddenly upon 

 him, or to which he may not have been 

 accuftomed : in this, as the former cafe, a 

 limilar degree of fe verity and cruel difplay 

 of power are exerted by the major part of 

 the hmnane and enlightened clafs before- 

 mentioned j for upon the horfe's firft ftart- 

 ing, whether from fear or diilike, he in- 

 itantly receives a blow on the head with whip 

 or ftick, accompanied with the very empha- 

 tical impreffion of both fpurs, without allow- 

 ing the poor animal a moment to recover from 

 the firft furprife ; this repeated, conflitutes a 

 ceremony we have before explained, and totally 

 deftroys the balis of mutual confidence, that 

 fhould be carefully preferved to infure the 

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