THE HORSE AND HIS RIDER. 



torment, but because the poor ass resisted feebly, and 

 made but little sport. In Malcolm's " Anecdotes of 

 London" we are told, that so late as 1682, horse-baiting 

 was witnessed, and under circumstances of singular 

 barbarity. Notice was given in the public papers 

 that on the 12th of April, a horse of uncommon 

 strength, and between eighteen and nineteen hands 

 high, would be baited to death at his Majesty's bear- 

 garden, at the Hope, on the Bank-side, for the 

 amusement of the Morocco ambassador, and any 

 nobility who knew the horse, or would pay the price 

 of admission. It seems that this animal originally 

 belonged to the Earl of Rochester, and being of a 

 ferocious disposition, had killed several other horses, 

 for which misdeeds he was sold to the Earl of Dor- 

 chester, and in his service he committed several simi- 

 lar offences ; he was then transferred to the worse 

 than savages, who kept the bear-garden. On the day 

 appointed, several dogs were set on the ferocious 

 steed, but he destroyed, or drove them from the area. 

 At length his owners determined to reserve him for 

 a future day's sport, and directed a person to lead 

 him away ; but before the horse had reached London 

 bridge, the spectators demanded the fulfilment of the 

 promise of baiting him to death, and began to destroy 

 the building. At last the poor beast was brought 



