ON THE RIGHTS OF BEASTS. I45 



nature to ferve him. I mould alfo apprehend, 

 that if our owners of poft-horfes would take 

 the trouble to calculate, they would difcover 

 that the total lofs, or crippling and rendering 

 nearly unferviceable of three or four horfes, 

 mufl detract rather too much from the profits 

 even of the mcft bufy feafon. Fair calculation, 

 on another fcore, would be much to their 

 advantage ; it would prove to them, that to 

 buy poor, worn-out, low-priced horfes, under 

 the horrid idea of " whipping them found," 

 (fetting afide the iniquity and difgrace of the 

 practice) is by no means the molt profitable 

 method of doing their bufinefs. It is true, that 

 when poverty may be alledged, the plea mufl 

 be admitted as legitimate. It mufl then be 

 infcribed in the melancholy catalogue of un- 

 avoidable evils. 



I will run as quickly, and as briefly as pof- 

 fible, through the moft material of the various 

 abufes, of Horfes in particular, which I have 

 noticed. I declare it with the fmceretl: plea- 

 fure, I have not of late heard of that deteftable 

 practice, which formerly difgraced the conducl 

 of many of our unthinking young men, who 

 paid for driving tired horfes, for the purpofe of 

 enjoying the unnatural pleafure of inflifting 

 upon them the utmoft tortures of the whip, in 

 proportion as their ftrength and ability were 

 exhaufted. When cruelty, or unneceffary fe- 



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