28 SYSTEM OF KENNEL AND 



for hasty precocious productions in human beings 

 as well as animals. The children of this generation 

 are, apparently, wiser in their parents' estimation 

 and their own than the children of a former one. 

 Forced meat is the ruling passion, or rather folly, 

 of the days we live in. Hothouse plants are all 

 the rage. A four-year-old colt is expected to be a 

 perfect hunter, and a bullock or sheep of two years 

 to produce first-rate beef and mutton. We prate 

 about our grandfathers having been very slow 

 coaches, but they knew right well the difference 

 between yearling and four-year-old mutton, and 

 half-calf from beef. Verily, our grandfathers were 

 not such fools as we are willing to fancy them. 



