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THE CARE OF HORSES 



senseless torture inflicted on horses of both rich and 

 poor owners ; and I want you to more than ' see it ' 

 clearly, I want you to act. If you are an owner, a 

 groom or drayman, carter or farm-labourer, see that 

 these reins are never used. The pictures here repro- 

 duced, by that excellent society, the Anti-Bearing- 

 Rein Association, are simply pictures of horses such 

 as anyone can see any day in the week, and, un- 

 fortunately, in almost any district. Had Nature 



FIG. 31. — PAIN AND KESTKAINT. 



intended animals to work with their necks contracted 

 and backs cramped, as you see in Fig. 31, they would 

 never have been created with such long, pliable necks. 

 Turn to wild-animal life, and think how almost 

 impossible the various kinds of goats, stags, deer, 

 and hill-dwelling animals, whose speed is their safety, 

 would find it to run and leap, gallop uphill, and 

 steady themselves downhill, if their necks were 

 shortened and cramped, and their noses nearly 

 touching their chests, instead of their having the 

 free use of all their natural strength. 



