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by tlie Saturday he generally returns with about a 

 sack of bones, by the collecting of which he pretends 

 to live. It would certainly be a great cruelty to 

 prevent so industrious and self-denying a man from 

 earning an honest livelihood, for the profit on a sack 

 of bones is not much to support a very hale man, his 

 wife, children, and two dogs ! The fact is, if he is 

 concerned in a burglary or robbery, we will say at 

 Hungerford in Berkshire, at one o'clock on Tuesday 

 morning, by seven or eight o'clock the same morning- 

 he is seen with his jaded dogs and a bushel of bones 

 in the streets of Northampton, forty miles off, and 

 directly across the country. This is one of the in- 

 dustrious lot who would be deprived of their bread 

 by putting down the dog-cart trade ! We are told 

 that men are assisted greatly by dogs in their labours 

 by mutually drawing, or rather by one shoving, the 

 other drawing, a cart or barrow ; that they divide the 

 labour ! Yes, they do divide it, as you may a walnut 

 — eat the kernel yourself, and give your partner the 

 shells. The way the labour is generally divided is 

 this : the dog not only draws the cart, but assists the 

 two-legged beast along, who holds on by the handles ; 

 and when exhausted by this, he (not the man, I wish 

 he was,) is visited from time to time with the applica- 

 tion of constant kicks, within the reach of which you 

 will always find the dog fastened. 



A degree of sophistry was used to show, or rather 

 an assertion was made by some one, that a man 

 would not ill-use a dog more than a horse, for his 

 own interest's sake. This is real sophistry. In the 

 first place, a man may very much ill-use a horse, and 

 find his interest in so doing in a pecuniary point of 

 view. For instance : a wretched ill-fed over-worked 



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