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subject of ill-using animals. I am only going, as I 

 proposed, to show how, by a succession of annoyances 

 and rascally manoeuvres for mercenary motives, the 

 temper of a fine and well-disposed animal may be 

 roused to violence. Pray which is the greater brute 

 in this case ? I am afraid the august personage is not 

 the more respectable animal : he certainly is the greater 

 rascal : but without any absolute ill-usage, we will, as 

 I proposed, put the horse in harness and out of temper. 

 Gutta cavat lapidem, non vi, sed, &c. 



We will suppose a Mr. Nickem, for some reason, 

 wishes it to appear that a horse is not likely to go 

 quiet in harness : we will say he wishes to buy him, 

 which he perhaps might not be able to do if the owner 

 thought the horse likely to make one for harness : we 

 will also suppose Nickem is quite satisfied that the 

 horse, if properly treated, will go quiet ; his worthy 

 assistants know this too ; arid they also know, if they 

 allow him to do this against the wishes of master, that 

 master would very soon find other assistants that 

 would not : so of course the thing is settled. As the 

 owner would not permit his horse to be ill-used before 

 his eyes, the effect wanted must be produced by means 

 that will not be detected by him, or at least not by 

 one owner in fifty: if he should happen to be the 

 fiftieth, who does know all about it, he is no customer 

 for Nickem ; for should the former put on his wide- 

 awake hat, Nickem may put on his nightcap. 



Having seen a horse put in harness that is wished 

 to go properly and quietly, we will just see the differ- 

 ence of treatment with the one that is not to go so. 

 The horse is first led from the stable to where the 

 harness is hung in the yard. This a person might 

 suppose is only done for convenience sake, or that it 



