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evinced the slightest regard to the state of the 

 horses drawing them : they might see the postboy 

 using the whip and spur as much as he pleased, 

 no enquiry was made ; but, on the contrary, if the 

 pace was not quite equal to the impatience of the 

 traveller, an angry reprimand on that head was 

 most likely the only remark made. Half the per- 

 sons availing themselves of the use of hired animals, 

 seem to consider that their being hired does away 

 with all calls of interest or humanity in the parties 

 using them ; such ideas are neither honest, just, 

 nor manly. It is dishonest to injure, or suffer to be 

 injured, what belongs to another, if we can prevent 

 it ; it is unjust to do, or suffer to be done, that towards 

 another, we would not permit in our own case ; 

 and I hold it one of the extremes of unmanliness, 

 to be the injuring or ill using anything that we are 

 aware will not, or cannot, retaliate. Many a savage 

 would kick an inoffensive cur, though his coward 

 heart would quail before the steady look of the 

 nobler blood-hound, a true though degrading em- 

 blem of his usual conduct among his fellow-men ; 



