FAULTS INSEPARABLE FROM STABLES. 



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hereafter, notwithstanding all the present state of art can accomplish, 

 probably drag its wretchedness about the world in a crippled condition 



CAST UNDER THE MANOER, 



No person living possibly wiMi, when inspecting the maimed and disabled 

 horse, reflect upon the fate which dooms the animal to years of sorrow, 

 laboring through the lowest species of earthly trial ; no one will heave 

 a sigh that such a fate overtook a placid, gentle, and obedient creature, 

 which was dangerously and cruelly confined during the time of serving 

 a being who was bound to study the necessities and administer to the 

 happiness of the life over which he had assumed absolute authority. 



Other evils also spring from obliging the horse to sleep on a surface 

 which is not level. The head of the animal being fastened to the man- 

 ger, it has no choice but to couch where it stands, or to remain erect and 

 endeavor to sleep in that position. There are quadrupeds which adopt and 

 which maintain the last alternative : their bodies never repose on earth, 

 until their injuries and their wrong are engulfed in the common doom. 



It is not every animal, however, which can hold to such a resolution, 

 in spite of the aches and agonies by which it must be enforced. Certain 

 creatures, feeling their bodies glide backward, rather facilitate than en- 

 deavor to counteract the motion — hoping to soon rest upon the gangway, 

 which experience has taught them terminates the stall. Others sleep so 

 soundly as to be unconscious of the movement; while a third class, 

 having attained philosophy through a life of misfortune, pay but little 

 regard to the circumstances around them. In all instances the frame 



