CRUELTY AND TWADDLE. S'M) 



enough to do any harm ; and if he is the wildest 

 horse that ever had harness on, and has run away 

 every time he has been hitched, you can now hitch 

 him in a sulky, and drive him as you please. If 

 he wants to run, you can let him have the lines, 

 and f/ie tv/np too, with perfect safety, for he can 

 go but a slow^ gait on three legs, and will soon be 

 tii'ed." 



Now of all the cruelties (necessary operations 

 omitted) upon the poor horse, I say that whipping 

 him along a hard road on three legs in an Ame- 

 rican sulky is one of the most diabolical and cow- 

 ardly acts that the greatest brute in human shape 

 could devise. A merciful man is merciful to his 

 beast, and these lines of Pope's may be taken in 

 an extended meaning — 



"Teach me to feel another's woe, 

 To hide the fault I see ; 

 That mercy I to others show. 

 That mercy show to me." 



I must confess my thorough disgust at the com- 

 bination of cruelty and twaddle about gentling 

 horses mixed up together in these pages, and have 

 scarcely patience to proceed further ; but I trust 

 that in this country we have sufficient good sense, 

 as w^ell as proper feeling, to prevent such unneces- 



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