2U THIS SO-CALLED "INCAPACITATING VICES." 



The dismissed cart is generally well burdened, after the hour for strik- 

 ing work has arrived. The men usually leave off their toil as the first 

 stroke of the clock is heard ; but no such relaxation is permitted to the 

 creature which, of the many over-worked bodies, has toiled the hardest 

 and needs rest the most. The quietude of London suburbs is regularly 

 broken with the thud 1 thud ! thud I produced by the heavy shafts pulling 

 down the chain, which has been jolted upward by the ungainly trot of the 

 tired slave. The sound declares the force which falls every few moments 

 upon the same part of a living spine. The falling of a single drop of 

 water, long continued, on the same place, can occasion direst agony. 

 The Inquisition illustrated that fact. But the cart is heavier than many 

 drops of water. Any one who has beheld a spectacle of this description, 

 can have hardly failed to observe the faintness, mingled with suffering, 

 which propels the load. The driver commonly stands up near to the 

 front ; he jags the reins and loudly cracks the long whip, that fright may 

 quicken the movement of those limbs which tire seems to glue to the 

 stones over which they pass. 



THE COMMON CAUSES OP RICK OF THE BACK IN HEAVY H0BSE8. 



Rick or chink in the back is, generally, generated by that want of 

 sympathy shown by the community of proprietors in regard to their 

 property in horse flesh. It would be a legitimate cause for wonder, 

 were horses not a hazardous investment, when breathing and living 

 frames are subjected to the united effects of ignorance and o*" prejudice. 



