506 



THE HORSE. 

 FIFTY MILES. 



1842 



Blaek Joke, 



3h. 57m. 



ONE HUNDRED MILES. 



If these few pages, written hastily in hours snatched from a 

 laborious profession, and from sleep, should inspire the reader 

 with a higher respect for and more tender sympathy with man's 

 most useful and willing servant, they have not been written in 

 vain. 



CHESTER, PA., February 1869, 



