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tain for hours ? Is it not worked in summer as well as 

 winter ? Does not mud cover the roadways in this 

 country during the colder season for a far longer period 

 than the snow ? The summer's toil must be most oppres- 

 sive to this over-tasked animal ; for, though the dog is 

 naturalized close to the northern pole, he becomes scarce 

 for a long distance before the equator is reached. It is 

 the creature of a cold climate ; and what it can do in one 

 country is by no means the measurement of that" which 

 it can perform in another ; as those who have been at the 

 trouble and expense of exporting hunting-clogs from 

 England to India can testify. 



The foot, moreover, may travel over a sheet of snow 

 with impunity, which may be unsuited for journeying 

 over artificial roads, deep in mud or water ; or else hot, 

 dry, and parched with a summer's sun. The sportsman's 

 dog is often sore-footed ; and do the approvers of dog- 

 carts pretend that the wretched beast, forced by an in- 

 human master to undue labor, is of a different species ? 

 If the animals are the same, how can it be argued that 

 the organ, which when moving over soft ploughed or 

 grassy fields often fails, is all -sufficient for the longest 

 and heaviest journey performed upon a hard artificially 

 constructed road 1 



One grave senator in the House of Lords used as an 

 argument against the Bill introduced to put down that 

 abominable nuisance, dog-carts, in this country, the plea r 

 sure he had experienced, when a child, while being 

 drawn in a carriage pulled by a dog along the lawn 



