114 THE horse's rescue. 



Now they are trying to make them carry high 

 heads by over-draws and checks. What is the effect 

 of this? It adds greatly to the suffering of these 

 horses. It throws them off their base further than 

 they would otherwise be. Their necks sink down, 

 their noses stick straight out, and they have the ap- 

 pearance of camels; the lines are so arranged they 

 turn their heads out nearly one-quarter around, when 

 thev should point on a straight line when the horses 

 are traveling on a straiglit line. And that is not all. 

 The}^ have been kept in the stable not verj'' light. 

 They are brought out in the sunlight gagged up, and 

 obliged to have the bunlight pouring in their eyes, 

 while the driver must have a shade over his tender 

 eyes and head. This is a rather hard picture, but 

 these are facts. 



Let us look at the driver ; he sits on the front edaQ 

 of the seat; he appears as though he was sitting on a 

 jug. He wants to go faster, his hands extending out 

 toward the horse's loin. With each hand he has the 

 appearance of pushing on the lines. He does not like 

 the movements of his horses, but is ignorant of the 

 cause. It does not take a very clear observer of 

 human nature to see the unrest and worry he is 

 obliged to endure, caused by the awkward movements 

 of his horses. Let us watch him circle them. He will 

 be obliged to make a large circle, or they will be likely 

 to fall. See, he is turning them to the left. The 

 near horse's head is drawn hy the lines the course Ije 

 wants him to take. His mate's head is drawn the op- 

 posite. Reader, is it not curious that these horses can- 

 not move together ? Let us look and see how they 



