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by the Saturday he generally returns with about a 

 sack of bones, by the collecting of which he pretends 

 to live. It would certainly be a great cruelty to 

 prevent so industrious and self-denying a man from 

 earning an honest livelihood, for the profit on a sack 

 of bones is not much to support a very hale man, his 

 wife, children, and two dogs ! The fact is, if he is 

 concerned in a burglary or robbery, we will say at 

 Hungerford in Berkshire, at one o'clock on Tuesday 

 morning, by seven or eight o'clock the same morning 

 he is seen with his jaded dogs and a bushel of bones 

 in the streets of Northampton, forty miles off, and 

 directly across the country. This is one of the in- 

 dustrious lot who would be deprived of their bread 

 by putting down the dog- cart trade ! We are told 

 that men are assisted greatly by dogs in their labours 

 by mutually drawing, or rather by one shoving, the 

 other drawing, a cart or barrow ; that they divide the 

 labour ! Yes, they do divide it, as you may a walnut 

 eat the kernel yourself, and give your partner the 

 shells. The way the labour is generally divided is 

 this : the dog not only draws the cart, but assists the 

 two-legged beast along, who holds on by the handles ; 

 and when exhausted by this, he (not the man, I wish 

 he was,) is visited from time to time with the applica- 

 tion of constant kicks, within the reach of which you 

 will always find the dog fastened. 



A degree of sophistry was used to show, or rather 

 an assertion was made by some one, that a man 

 would not ill-use a dog more than a horse, for his 

 own interest's sake. This is real sophistry. In the 

 first place, a man may very much ill-use a horse, and 

 find his interest in so doing in a pecuniary point of 

 view. For instance : a wretched ill-fed over-worked 



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