in. THE DABCHICKS. I 87 



I left him in the shafts behind, 

 * His fellows all unhook'd and gone ; 

 ._' HLe neigh'd, and deemed the thing unkind ; 

 Then, starting, drew the load alone. 

 '■<'■ ^ * * * 



Half choked with joy, with love, and pride. 

 He now with dainty clover fed him ; 

 Now took a short, triumphant ride, 

 And then again got down, and led him." 



139. Where Paris has had to lead /ler 

 horses, we know; and where London had 

 better lead hers, than let her people die of 

 starvation. But I have not lost my hope that 

 there are yet in England Bewicks and Bloom- 

 fields, who may teach their children — and earn 

 for their cattle — better ways of fronting, and 

 of waiting for, Death. 



Nor are the uses of the inferior creatures to 

 us less consistent with their happiness. To 

 all that live. Death must come. The manner 

 of it, and the time, are for the human Master 

 of them, and of the earth, to determine — not 

 to his pleasure, but to his duty and his need. 



In sacrifice, or for his food, or for his 

 clothing, it is lawful for him to slay animals ; 

 but not to delight in slaying any that are help- 

 less. If he choose, for discipline and trial of 



