118 Beason or Listinct, 



and down until they are fit to drop from exhaustion, and 

 frequently they are ridden by great lubbers who weigh them 

 down. The other evil is the wicked overcrowding of carts 

 and wagons on Derby day, Hampton races, and such occa- 

 sions, when frequently unfortunate horses can hardly crawl 

 before they get half way. The Society ought to have 

 arbitrary power to seize the horses and vehicles and im- 

 pound them. It is a positive fact that an unfortunate mare 

 was taken out of a cart, and foaled on Ba,nstead downs on 

 a Derby day by the road side, and my son saw it occur. 



I have not much faith in foreign missions, there is too 

 much talkee-talkee and platform oratory, but I do believe 

 in home missions, whether the promoters be Roman 

 Catholics, Church of England or Dissenters, for I know that 

 many kind men and women get the confidence of the very 

 poor and are the apostles of humanity. And now for once 

 I will be a home missioner, and respectfully ask the mother 

 of every household where these pages may find a home, to tell 

 the children whenever they see a big rough stone or brick or 

 anything of that kind, especially a broken bottle lying in 

 the road, to remove it to the side of the road in a town and 

 to throw it into the ditch in the country, as the doing so 

 may save many a horse and possibly somebody's life. 



