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Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and many men are 

 sent to prison for trifling acts of cruelty, yet this great 

 glaring act goes unpunished because it is one of fashion's 

 follies ; and men of education, calling themselves gentle- 

 men, have such a perverted taste that they think it 

 improves the handiwork of the Great Creator. God 

 ofave the horse to be the friend and servant of man, 

 but it must have been Satan himself, in his animosity, 

 who played upon the pride and vanity of man, and 

 caused him to invent that piece of abominable torture, 

 the bearing-rein. I hope the day is not far distant 

 when the use of the bearing-rein will become a recognised 

 misdemeanour, and be punished as an act of cruelty. 

 The man bringing such an Act into Parliament would 

 deserve well of his country. An old writer says, " Dulce 

 et decorum est pro patria mori ; " yet it is more sweet 

 and honourable to live and do good to our fellow-man 

 by enlightening his mind and exposing the pitfalls and 

 stumbling-stones at his feet. When men are taught the 

 uselessness and cruelty of the bearing rein it will be dis- 

 carded and become a thing of the past. As the carriage 

 horse is often the sufferer by man's ignorance and by 

 bad shoeing, neglect, and the use of the bearing rein, 

 he often falls, and his knees are badly cut by coming in 

 contact with the hard road. It will be right here to give 

 the reader instructions how to proceed with the horse 

 when its knees are badly broken. 



As in all cases of wounds, the first thing is to wash 

 clean with lukewarm water, get all foreign substances 

 out of the wound, then examine carefully by putting 

 the forefinger into the wound to ascertain if the joint 



