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THE CARE OF HORSES 



Rather a hard hit, that, at ' society smartness. 5 

 Space will not allow a quotation from the hundreds 

 of letters written on this subject by professional 

 gentlemen ; but I will give you the opinions of two 



FIG. 37.— COMFORT, 



professors of the Royal Veterinary College, London. 

 Professor Pritchard says : 



' An act of great cruelty is being daily and hourly 

 perpetrated, and in many instances by very good people, 

 who "know not what they do." Were they aware of the 

 pain they are inflicting, I am sure they would soon bring 

 about the abolition of a custom which undoubtedly is a 



