106 Importance of Grooming. 



almost a fabulous number of animals, and the 

 only reasonable conclusion one can come to is, 

 that such work and conditions are imposed upon 

 the poor creatures, that it would amply repay the 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, 

 and other adherents to Martin's Act, for an 

 application to Parliament to institute special 

 investigations into their condition, with a view 

 to an amelioration. For less than one-twentieth 

 aye, one-hundredth of the physical appear- 

 ances of a pit animal witnessed in a horse in our 

 streets, the keen eyes of the policeman would 

 have a case, but from these places in the recesses 

 of the earth there comes no cry, and nothing is 

 known. 



One horsekeeper had under his care fifteen 

 horses and nineteen ponies ; a second, four 

 horses and twenty-four ponies ; a third, twenty- 

 three ponies ; a fourth, two horses and thirty- 

 eight ponies; a fifth, nine horses and twenty- 

 eight ponies. 



Three men had the care of five horses and 

 eighty-nine ponies in a sixth instance, and 

 three others had the care of twenty-two horses 

 and fifty-one ponies. 



These animals are to be fed, harnessed, and 

 cleaned to go out to work at 5 a.m. by these 

 men, who descend several hours previously in 

 order to attempt an impossibility. 



If we take the mean of these numbers, we 

 shall find that each man had an average of 

 thirty animals to attend to. The arrangements 



