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THE ETHICS OF HORSE-KEEPIXG. 



IE a man could go into open market and for two or 

 three hundred dollars purchase the lifelong devo- 

 tion of a friend, though a humble friend, it would be 

 accounted a wonderful thing. But that is exactly 

 what happens, or might happen, whenever a horse is 

 bought. You give him food, lodging, and the reason- 

 able services of a valet, in return for which he will 

 not only further your business or your pleasure, as 

 the case may be, to the best of his ability, but he will 

 also repay you with affection, respond to your ca- 

 resses, greet you with a neigh of pleased recognition, 

 and in a hundred ways of his own exhibit a sense of 

 the relationship. 



There are men to whom a horse is only an animate 

 machine : they will ride and drive him, hire grooms 



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