FAULTS INSEPARABLE FROM STABLES. 



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the position is fixed, and the creature is powerless to alter it. Tne limbs 

 are free, but these can only be used to kick and to aggravate the pain 

 of the situation. The animal is a prisoner, and so it must remain, vainly 

 contending with its doom, and exhausting its energies in fruitless efforts 

 to escape. 



Assuredly, he should have possessed an enlarged capacity for evil 

 who first conceived the notion of making a living creature, which was 

 conspicuous for its strength, its activity, and its timidity, exist in a niche ; 

 to have its head tied up by day and by night ; and subsequently doomed 

 it to rest upon a floor which sloped in a painful and an unnatural direc- 

 tion. No surer means could have been invented of shortening the life, 

 of deforming the body, or of injuring the limbs of the creature in whose 

 prosperity man conceived he had "a property." Arms of all kinds, and 

 of every description, the quadruped might have been safely trusted with ; 



LYING ON THE GANGWAY. 



but to require of activity, that it should be fettered and forego all motion ; 

 to demand of timidity, that it should be bound or imprisoned, and not 

 display sensibility ; to ask, that strength should endure and not attempt 

 to struggle, was surely expecting too much from an inhabitant of a 

 world in which fear, as the natural instructor of organized beings, is 

 universally prevalent. 



The horse, thus located, was only presented with the ready means of 

 doing injury to itself. It was provided with the only weapons which 



