I52 ON THE RIGHTS OF BEASTS. 



correction ufed mud be fuperfluous ; as is moil 

 of that brutal whipping, which we fee praclifed 

 on an embarrafs, at the door of the playhoufe, 

 or other public place. 



The humane reader, who has been accuf- 

 tomed to perambulate the dreets of the metro- 

 polis, will recollect, that he has often obferved a 

 carman, with his whip hoided aloft, upon his 

 arm, and his countenance marked with all the 

 infolence of petty tyranny, drutting along the 

 foot-path, and calling his fore-horfe towards 

 him. This neceffary manoeuvre, of " Come 

 hither, who-o," the little tyrant of the whip is 

 determined to inculcate by dint of the utmod 

 rigour, and by abfolutely breaking the fpirit of 

 the beafl ; whence enfue careleflhefs, ftubborn- 

 nefs, uncertainty, and defperation ; indead of 

 uling mild and perfuafive methods, attempered 

 with occafional flight correction, in virtue of 

 which he might, almod to a certainty, enfure 

 the willing and fteady obedience of his horfe. 

 At one inltant, the horfe is whipped for hold- 

 ing too clofe to his driver, at the next, for bear- 

 ing off too much ; now, for going too fail, then 

 again, for going too flow ; bye and by, for flop- 

 ping, afterwards, becaufe he did not (top ; that 

 the faculties of the poor bead are totally con- 

 founded, and caufed to degenerate into an inert 

 and flagnant date of infenfibility, indead of 

 making a progrefs in that ratio of improvement, 



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