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EVILS OF MODERN STABLES. 



to its former plan of operations; it pulls and pulls, only the bonds not 

 yielding to the same force as before, the horse, following the groom's 

 principle, increases the strength requisite to overpower the difficulty. 



THE EFFECT OF THE COLLAS-STKAP. 



A man being defeated in his first essay, probably would resign him- 

 self to sullen despair. But the horse is possessed of a different order of 

 mind. Man can conceive a futurity; animals have a knowledge only of 

 the past. All the tales told of animal instincts are capable of explana- 

 tion by reference to their experience. Chastisement or chiding must 

 be often repeated before brute intelligence can connect the infliction of 

 pain with the commission of certain acts. But, the two being associ- 

 ated, the teaching is generally retained, and, apparently, remains as 

 fresh in the memory upon the day of death as it was upon the first 

 acknowledgment of the lesson. The horse is, however, expected only 

 to obey certain signs, and submit to certain restraints. Its intellect 

 remains, therefore, in a great measure uncultivated. What has been 

 once must be again, embraces the range of its understanding. 



The additional chain, consequently, makes no alteration in the be- 

 havior of the horse. Present failure only excites to increased exertion. 

 The entire weight and the utmost strength are brought to -bear upon the 

 fastenings. The simple quadruped, incapable of calculating the prob- 

 able results of the sudden absence of resistance, plies with greater 

 energy, till the chains snap, and the huge body, instantaneously re- 

 leased, shoots violently backward. Bones have been broken. Lame- 

 ness is the general result ; but lucky, indeed, is the creature which can 

 rise after such a misfortune, and merely display several huge portions of 

 its skin abraded. 



The reader is here invited to examine the facts which have resulted in 

 this serious damage to living property. To bind the strong is not 



