26 NATURALIST'S CABINET. 



Recollection of injury Barbarous practices. 



services they are capable of rendering him. 

 One remarkable instance of recollection of in- 

 jury, and an attempt to revenge it is, however, 

 inserted in a work of D. Rolle, Esq. of Torring- 

 ton, in Devonshire : A baronet, one of whose 

 hunters had never tired in the longest chase, 

 once encouraged the cruel thought of attempt- 

 ing completely to fatigue him. After a long 

 chase, therefore, he dined, and again mount- 

 ing, rode him furiously among the hills. When 

 brought to the stable, his strength appeared so 

 completely exhausted, that he was scarcely able 

 to walk. The groom, possessed of more feel- 

 ing than his brutal master, burst into tears at 

 the sight of so noble an animal thus sunk down, 

 Some time afterward, the baronet entered the 

 ptable; upon which the horse made a furious 

 spring upon him, and had it not been for thq 

 groom's interference, he would indisputably have 

 prevented him from ever again misusing his 

 animals. 



Docking 'the tails and cutting the ears of 

 horses, are two barbarous practices very preva- 

 lent in England. The former, principally \\itlj 

 waggon horses, under the idea that a bushy tail 

 collects the dirt of the roads; and the latter, 

 from the supposition that they are rendered more 

 elegant in their appearance. The absurdity of 

 this conduct, however, must appear on reflection ; 

 for, by taking away their ears, those funnels are 

 destroyed, which they always direct to the place 



