204 Our Noblest Friend, The Horse 



he figured as the " cuffee " and not the " differ." 

 Hence, when arrest fohovvs his pernicious activity 

 with whip and boot, he is not infrequently genuinely 

 surprised, as he is at the lecture read to him by 

 the judge and at the sentence imposed, especially 

 as he well knows that the crippled animal his few 

 dollars had secured had been the pet of Dives, the 

 banker; but, injured by a fall uix)n the fiendish 

 asphalt, had been summarily consigned to the auction 

 mart, and sold for the trifle which Lazarus was able 

 to afford. " Why," he says to himself, " am I, 

 poor struggling wretch that I am, thus disciplined 

 for beating my horse in my effort to deliver a load 

 which would earn bread for my family, when his 

 former owner goes free after his greater crime of 

 thus consigning an animal tO' lingering torture which 

 had ruined itself by efforts in his service? " 



If one will watch the records of arrest for such 

 misdeeds, one will find that seventy-five per cent, 

 of the perpetrators of these cruelties are foreigners, 

 and from countries where it is the national charac- 

 teristic to abuse and to neglect the animal kingdom. 



