HORSE SENSE. 107 



Kindly remember this lesson, and hereafter when you leave me lengthen 

 out my check-rein or let nie have the use of my head, and we will think 

 more of each other. I will be a better horse for you and we will both 

 enjoy each other more, and appreciate the comforts of life to a greater 

 degree. 



TO THE OWNERS OF FINE HORSES. 



If the city men who own good horses, as well as others, will take 

 a walk through their streets, or even in samller towns, and observe 

 the horses hitched along the w-alks with their heads checked high by 

 this cruel over-head check, and watch them turning their heads from 

 side to side for relief, they will have some idea what a punishment it is. 

 and how much unnecessary punishment the horse is enduring for the 

 want of a little consideration for his comfort. 



DEMAND FOR RELIEF IF OWNERS KNEW THE HORSE'S 

 SUFFERINGS. 



If the owners of fine turnouts knew that their coachmen sitting 

 on the seat of the carriage, whip in hand, ready to punish the horses 

 every time they sought relief from that over-head check by turning their 

 heads while standing in front of the residence where the ladies are 

 making a fashionable call, there is but little doubt but positive instruc- 

 tions would be issued that the driver should get down and imcheck 

 the horses and entertain them while the guests were enjoying them- 

 selves in the house, even if the call is not longer than ten or fifteen 

 minutes. 



LADIES COULD NOT ENJOY CALLS IF THEY KNEW HOW 

 MUCH THE HORSES SUFFER. 



If the ladies only realized v.hat suffering their fine horses are endur- 

 ing for their pleasure, a new order of arrangement would be enforced at 

 once, and the horses would find that the driver would have to relieve 

 their heads every time they stopped, or they could not enjoy their 

 ride or visit. Ladies generally are far more sympathetic than men, 

 and they can do much for the relief of the horse from the cruel over- 

 head check-rein as well as in other respects. 



SERMON TO HORSE OWNERS. 



On a certain Sabbath a friend of the author was passing by a cer- 

 tain church, before which were hitched many teams, the property of 

 affluent Christians. The owners and their families were inside, listen- 

 ing, no doubt, to the old, old story of loving kindness, man's brother- 

 hood, consideration for the weak and lowly, protection to the helpless, 

 etc. 



WHILE THE HORSE SUFFERED THEIR OWNERS WOR- 

 SHIPPED. 



Those Christian horse-owners were probably unctiously seconding 

 a prayer for the coming of that kingdom in which suffering would be 

 tmkriown, and the milk of human kindness Vvould ceaselessly flow; 



