THE BEARING-REIN. 9I 



vices to man are rewarded only by pain and misap- 

 prehension." 



As one of the most sensitive and delicate of 

 animals, he is too often the victim of the ignorant 

 and indifferent, in their love of display, and to 

 accentuate their wealth and fashion, I imagine. 



" It is true, but those who know how to care for 

 horses with sympathy, and an understanding of their 

 needs and merits, cannot look with pleasure on their 

 distress. Or, when robbed of their beroming equip- 

 ments of mane and tail, they are held back to prance 

 against the check-rein, while being urged on by the 

 smarting, irritating lash, all their natural aptitudes 

 held in abeyance, in order that they may thus give a 

 'stylish' effect on parade." 



I fancy there must be very few who have not a 

 keen appreciation of their courage and loyalty; their 

 beauty and sagacity; their endurance and power; 

 their affection and forbearance; and above all, their 

 self-restraint under provocation. 



" It may be so, but it is to wealth and fashion that 

 we look, to promote the development of these noble 

 animals, and to prevent their being tortured and 

 harassed by inhuman and ignorant abuses. '* 



