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from the ground, carried it for some distance ; then 

 setting it down, he threw one leg over its back, and half 

 rode, half walked, with his feet touching the ground on 

 either side. After a time he again carried the horse a 

 short distance ; and, at length, he took it up the steps of 

 a shop, and disappeared with it at the door. 



It is truly lamentable that the horse, which is so 

 valuable to man, should often be treated with great 

 rigour and cruelty. Such objects should certainly not 

 be seen as that on which the poet's eye was fixed, 

 when he said : 



" Will none befriend that poor dumb brute ? 



Will no man rescue him ? 

 With weaker effort, gasping, mute, 

 He strains in every limb. 



" Spare him, O spare : he feels, he feels ! 



Big tears roll from his eyes : 



Another crushing blow ! he reels, 



Staggers, and falls, and dies. 



" Shame that of all the living chain 



That links creation's plan, 

 There is but one delights in pain, 

 The savage monarch, man !" 



One lesson of humanity may be derived from Busbe- 

 quius, who was ambassador at Constantinople in the 

 seventeenth century. "No creature," he says, "is so 

 gentle as a Turkish horse, nor more respectful to his 



