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the animal giving way, probably with little pain, 

 possibly without any. The spirit of horse or 

 man is sometimes stronger than the constitution, 

 and we frequently hear of the latter dying of 

 fever produced by over-exertion or by the breaking 

 a blood-vessel at the time. Thus as the man 

 occasionally voluntarily undergoes exertion that 

 ends fatally, we are not to set it down as a 

 data that a horse has been cruelly treated, to 

 whom such casualty may occur. I am quite 

 willing to admit that some men may become 

 so excited as not to attend to certain indications 

 of distress in a very high couraged horse, and 

 may permit him to exert himself to a degree 

 that ends fatally; and for the credit of humanity 

 we will conclude that after-reflection tells them a 

 tale they cannot but regret, it tells them at least of 

 thoughtlessness, carelessness, and very probably of 

 the false feeling of not being out-done, all to be ex- 

 cused (though most certainly not commended) where 

 no cruelty was intended or wilHngly perpetrated. 



