INTRODUCTION TO PART IL 



The author regrets his inability to add his own testi- 

 mony to that of Sir Geo. W. Cox, first printed in this 

 country in the Popular Science Mojit/ily, feeling, indeed, 

 a sense of shame, not because anything he might say 

 could add one whit of weight to what is so well put 

 forth (and so ably commented upon by Col. Weld), 

 but, to think that he has up to the present time made 

 one of the million who so cruelly, constantly, thought- 

 lessly, and needlessly abused this noblest of animals, 

 the horse ! The abuse is rendered a thousand-fold 

 worse in that, generally speaking, the poor creatures 

 are at the mercy of a class — I had almost said a race 

 — of people as willful as they are ignorant — the class 

 of whom it was said by an exceptional one of the 

 fraternity : " Generally, when there is a boy in the 

 family who is too big a fool for anything else, his 

 father makes a blacksmith of him ! " 



C. E. P. 



(lOl) 



