THE HORSE S RESCUE. 99 



three months; so much gather that thej are constantly 

 sliding on the ground, trying to keep on a straight 

 line. If they could move the way they are set they 

 would travel on lines that would cross each other sixtv 

 rods ahead of the point where the wagon stood. Tlie 

 driver being badly off his base, and out of harmoiiv, 

 and the wagon running on the wrong principle, added 

 greatly to the horse's suffering. The poor h rse, also 

 off his base, trying to draw that heavy load up an in- 

 clined plain rising over a long lever, has rather hard 

 work ; and yet he had to endure it, and it is no fault 

 of his. Look out for that lever ! There is a power 

 in lever principle. 



After this poor horse has dragged that load up hills 

 many miles, for his reward he is stabled in some old 

 rookery you could throw a cat through ; cold, bleak 

 wind and snow howling through ; some old rotten 

 clover-stack hay for his rations; the place where he is 

 tied and obliged to stand has not been cleaned out in 

 three months, and ofttimes more ; his hind parts ele- 

 vated according to the size of the pile. 



Eeader, the horse has four legs. It makes a vast 

 difference to him how he stands; give him his head, 

 he will tell you whether the position he is obliged 

 to stand is not right. How is he going to rest lying 

 in this position — hind parts elevated in this way ? 

 Some morning he is found cast. Then club and boots 

 are used to help him up; if this does^ not raise him, a 

 chain is put around him, and he is drawn out of his 

 uncomfortable position. He cannot rise. The hard 

 treatment, that lever, the abuse he has been obliged to 

 endure, have exhausted all of his power of endurance. 



