94 Management and Tj'eatniejit of the Horse. 



pose to the horse as the hands to a mau ; if it 

 stumbles it puts its head out to gain its equi- 

 librium, but if its head and tail are tied together 

 with the bearing-rein and the animal stumbles 

 he must fall, if the bearing-rein or the turret 

 does not break. I have seen many horses draw- 

 ing heavy loads up-hill with their heads tied as 

 if in a vice, making the labour doubly as hard 

 for the poor animals. Any horse with full liberty 

 will draw a ton better than it could half a ton 

 with its head tied up with" the bearing rein. 

 Look at a team of horses at plough, drawing up 

 the face of a steep hill, see how they bend to 

 their work ; they have liberty, consequently they 

 work with ease ; but see another team with their 

 heads tied up with the bearing rein, see how 

 hard they labour to draw the plough, see how 

 often they try to stop, see how they toss their 

 heads to relieve the strain on the muscles of the 

 neck ; hark how the driver uses the whip to urge 

 them on ; yet Fashion has ordained that the horse 

 must suffer from man's ignorance. We have a 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 

 and many men are sent to prison for trifling acts 

 of cruelty, yet this great glaring act goes un- 

 punished because it is one of fashion's follies ; 

 and men of education, calling themselves gentle- 

 men, have such a perverted taste that they think 

 it improves the handiwork of the Great Creator. 

 God gave the horse to be the friend and servant 

 of man, but it must have been Satan himself 

 in his animosity who played upon the pride and 

 vanity of man, and caused him to invent that 



