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anny.in its superiors, when the human race can neglect 

 and entail such anguish upon the beings beneath them. 



A little self-restraint instilled by a better plan of edu- 

 cation; a little more humanity enforced by the teachers 

 of religion, to instruct that man should not vievv himself 

 as the owner of the earth, which he temporarily inhabits ; 

 that man should not consider himself the proprietor of 

 the lives which share the globe with him; that man 

 should be actuated by genuine Christian Love towards 

 all animated nature; feeling kindly for the lives akin to 

 his own, and acknowledging, as fellow sojourners, the 

 creatures by which he is surrounded; then how much 

 affliction might be eradicated from that which wickedness 

 alone renders a "vale of tears." 



BITTING THE COLT. 



Here it should be remembered, that the main object is 

 to get an easy, governable mouth; not, as many people 

 suppose, to make a stylish horse for, no matter how styl- 

 ish your horse may appear, if he has not a governable 

 month, he is not a safe nor a pleasant horse to drive. 



Long experience has taught me, that all bad horses in 

 harness have ungovernable mouths, therefore, let your 

 main object be to accomplish the above. And we think 

 the following plan superior to any other. (See Fig. 6.) 



THE BITTING BRIDLE. 



Take a strap two and one-half feet in length, and one inch 

 wide, with a one and a half inch ring sewed to one end 

 of it; now attach another three inch strap, of the same 

 width, with a buckle. Now, Scinches from the ring, inside 

 of the long strap, attach a piece of elastic rubber, seven or 



