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CHAPTER I. 



Fad and Fashion. The Docking and 

 Mutilating of Horses 



THE fad of the hour — the fashion of the day 

 — and not ephemeral, as the displays of 

 each winter season increasingly prove, is for the 

 mutilation of pets, the sacrificing of the beautiful 

 to the grotesque and bizarre. Milady drives in the 

 park behind her beautiful carriage-horses, docked of 

 tail and plucked of their flowing mane ; beside her 

 is her Boston terrier, whose ears have been trimmed, 

 and whose docked tail has, not improbably, been 

 broken and left disjointed, in order that the fashion- 

 able " screw " malformation may be secured. She 



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