I5O ON THE RIGHTS OF BEASTS. 



rienced people, that Horfes are belt governed 

 by gentle ufage. I am determined, to permit 

 no other to mine. I will have no foul blows 

 given, nor fuffer my cattle to be wealed and 

 marked with the whip. If any of them will 

 not do without fuch ufage, prove it to me, and 

 I will change them. I (hall look and enquire 

 ftricUy into your conduct, and the inftant you 

 difobey me, in this refpecl, you are no longer 

 my fervant." 



Much mifchief and cruelty enfues from in- 

 dulging the petty vanity, and knowing conceits, 

 of country carters. I knew a villain of that 

 clafs, who, being offended at the figure and 

 condition of a horfe, which his mailer had pur- 

 chafed for the plough, continued to drive him 

 by the whip, to fuflain more than his (hare of 

 the labour; at feeding times inhumanly tying 

 his head up to the rack, to prevent his reach- 

 ing the corn, until in a (hort time the poor ani- 

 mal dropped down dead in the liable, from ex- 

 ceflive labour, and want of fuflenance. Great 

 barbarity is too often exercifed, to no manner 

 of purpofe, upon thofe horfes, the nature of 

 w r hich will not permit them to draw, what are 

 called, dead pulls. 



In town, the abfurd method of (hoeing cart 

 and coach-horfes, in particular, is productive of 

 a thoufand cruelties and dangers. The difpo- 

 fitions of Horfes vary in the fame manner and 



degrees, 



