30 THE PROGRESS OF HIPPOPHAGY. 



not much to do with the comparatively brief duration of 

 his ability to labour. 



Science has already answered the inquiry in the affir- 

 mative. And as his wages, like those of many others 

 of the sons and daughters of toil, will not permit him 

 to buy much butcher-meat, there seems to us to be 

 no evading the conclusion arrived at by many distin- 

 guished foreigners namely, " Science, reason, and ex- 

 perience declaring that the flesh of the horse is salu- 

 brious, agreeable, and highly nutritious, it is most 

 needful that it become a common article of food, with a 

 special view to ameliorating the lot of the poor and the 

 working-classes." 



