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upon the front legs and otherwise crueUy 

 worrying with the whip the poor iU-used slave 

 which he should have felt bound to protect. 

 I saw it first from a distance — more fully as 

 I came near — and with a heart bursting with 

 sorrow and indignation, I crossed over and 

 remonstrated with the man. I said very 

 little ; only what I have tried to inculcate in 

 these pages — ^that humanity to quadrupeds is 

 not only a duty which we owe to their 

 Creator, but will in time repay ourselves. I 

 expected nothing but abuse, and, indeed, the 

 man's angry face and half-raised whip seemed 

 to augur me no good; but, suddenly, as some- 

 thing that I said came home to him, his 

 countenance softened, and, laying his hand 

 quite gently upon the poor beaten side of the 

 animal which he had been ill-treating, he 

 said : *^ Well, if there was more Hke youy there 

 'ud be less Hke me ! that's the thruth, at all 

 events.'* And then he said no more, for he 

 was satisfied that I knew I had not spoken in 

 vain. For two years that man has been my 

 constant driver. He is almost daily at my 

 door: he drives me to and from the trains 



