PREFACE. XI 



subjected my horses to the same, but I fairly 

 shared both with them ; and I can boast that I 

 never subjected any animals under my control 

 to induce suffering, to gratify any propensity of 

 my own. 



If I have advocated as strongly as I have done 

 in all my writings, the participating in and en- 

 joyment of field sports, as producing a manliness 

 of mind and hardihood of frame that have (as 

 yet) characterised my countrymen, I have, I 

 am happy to say and feel, equally advocated 

 kindness and humanity to the animals that 

 contribute to such enjoyments. Had I not done 

 so, I should never have been selected as one that 

 others are pleased to think a proper person to 

 write '*the Cause of the Quadruped;" for under 

 such title it was proposed to bring the present 

 little Essay out. I must confess the title was 

 altered by myself, and must solicit pardon while 

 stating my reason for making the the alteration. 

 "The Cause of the Quadruped " only intimated 



