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stock, and here the public gained a justifiable ad- 

 vantage: but then the man who horsed his coach 

 badly found it necessary to keep the same time, and 

 here the cruelty began. Again, the never-to-be- 

 satisfied greediness of coach-owners went to work, 

 and some one, who had hitherto done his work well, 

 began by lowering his fares to endeavour to again 

 supplant his neighbour. What was the consequence ? 

 To make it pay at the lower fares, he must diminish 

 his expenses : fewer and less able horses were used ; 

 and others followed his example, till it amounted to 

 this, that either money could not be got, or it must 

 be got by the cruelties I have truly, however im- 

 perfectly, represented. Coaching is, however, nearly 

 done up, therefore my remarks on the cruelties prac- 

 tised on horses in this way shall conclude here. 



Hide me, my good genius, in impenetrable ob- 

 scurity ; advocate my cause, ye lovers of fair truth, 

 while I avow my pity for those pitiable animals, a 

 pair of horses jobbed by a single lady during the 

 London season. " Massa here, Massa there, Massa 

 everywhere," is fully exemplified in the perpetual 

 appearance of the jobs " they are only jobs:" so 

 the usual work of a twelvemonth is to be got out of 

 them during the time they are engaged for. If they 

 are kept in the jobmaster's stable, they stand some 

 chance of fair play, because, if they have done a full 

 day's work, another pair are substituted for the 

 theatre, concert, or party at night : but if kept in the 

 lady's own stable, under her control, and their work 

 measured by her judgment and conscience (in this 

 particular), God help them ! They catch it in every 

 way. Ladies are not very apt to lend their own 

 horses and carriage to each other, but it is really 

 wonderful how kind, good natured, and considerate 



