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HORSE SENSE. 



me, by that cruel over-head check, while you left my head checked so 

 high while you were gone for three hours, I am sure you would have 

 either lengthened my check-rein or unchecked me entirely. I have been 

 turning my head from side to side, to shorten the distance from my 

 back to my numb mouth, from the pressure of the bit and check, with 

 little or no relief; and had you not come to my relief, I am afraid I 

 should have gone crazy and broke things all to pieces. I was becoming 

 desperate, and am thankful that you have decided to put me into the 

 barn, and not keep my head strained up here any longer. I think 

 if you could be made to understand that the continual straining of my 

 neck by that check into an unnatural position, and keeping it there for 

 hours at a time, is shortening my days of usefulness (stock in trade) to 

 you. If you would watch my actions carefully in going down hill, 

 you could see that with my head pulled up so high it is very hard on 

 my back, straining on my fore legs, jarring to my feet, and if the road 

 is uneven it is one continual jerk on my tender mouth and kinks in 

 my neck, or if there is much of a depression, in which I happen to step 

 (as I cannot see where I am putting my feet) then it is a terrible wrench 

 on my back, similar to you stepping of? a descent in the dark when you 

 least expect it. 



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GRACE AND BEAUTY SPOILED 

 Cut No. 15. 



AS NATURE MADE US. 

 Cut No. 44. 



APPLlEIi AS PUNISHMENT TO 



.'KIMINALS. A LESSON IN CONTRAST. 



THE HORSE CALLS ON HIS MASTER TO OBSERVE CLOSE« 

 LY THE ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Oh, master, look at these illustrations and then ask yourself how 

 you would like to be so situated that you had to submit to being put 

 into these unnatural positions, and kept there for hours without relief, 

 and then vou can have some little idea how your willing and faithful 

 horse is sufferintr daily from your lack of sympathy and attention. 



