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v/ill pant from running a hundred yards or less ; It does not 

 proceed from distress, but very often from pleasure. I take 

 it on myself to affirm, that there is far less cruelty inflicted 

 on doo-s in harness than on horses. In all the barrows I have 

 ever seen I never saw a lean dog, or a dog low in condition, 

 and never knew one either galled in the shoulders or withers, 

 or with sore feet ; and, I never saw one, that when taken out 

 of his barrow, when the time came to work again, who did 

 not race rejoicingly up to it, barking with pleasure to be re- 

 harnessed. As to " cruelly beating the dogs in harness," 

 that is not often done, and not one quarter done in propor- 

 tion to numbers as in the case of horses and asses, and for 

 this very good reason : if you savagely ill-treat a dog, you 

 may make him lie down and crouch at the feet of his tyrant, 

 but all the whips in the world won't make him draw. It 

 was cruel enough to murder by legislation the contented and 

 well-fed dogs that worked in harness for the poor in cities 

 and towns, and it was as cruel to take from cripples their 

 only method of locomotion, from those who were conveyed 

 from place to place by their dogs, which the bill, banishing 

 the dog-barrows from the pavements, did. The worst of 

 all was. the fact regarding the poor little living Trunk, for his 

 thighs were off close to the body, whose two contented and 

 fat dogs used to draw him in a little cart to a sunny wall in 

 Piccadilly, and there sit by his side, the only things in the 

 world that seemed to love him. The bill of the "over- 

 righteous " self-seekers passed, and this poor little object of 

 compassion to every really charitably-disposed heart, was con- 

 demned for ever to grovel on the earth, or crawl, a worm, on 

 the face of it. There was much that was wretched in his death, 

 though perhaps attended by a ghastly comicality. Torn by 

 this tyrannical bill from his dogs and from the possibility of 

 rendering himself visible in the great thoroughfare, he had 

 no means of receiving money for his support or theirs, and 

 with a broken heart the poor cripple was obliged to consign 

 his beloved four-footed companions to death ; and then, as a 

 last relief from the monotony of the cold ground, and in the 

 hope of earning a few pence, he let himself out to a barrel- 



