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upon the same principle that if it was necessary ten 

 miles should be walked under a mid-day sun, or 

 inclement weather, I should go myself, if I had no 

 one else to send, instead of permitting my wife, 

 daughter, or any delica^te female, to undergo such un- 

 dertaking ; neither myself nor man would by this un- 

 dergo more than some bodily inconvenience, but it 

 would create very gi-eat suffering to the others. What 

 an animal can do with fair and mere ordinary fatigue, 

 there is nothing improper in hiring him or calling 

 on him to do ; but I would refuse my hand to — I 

 would not call friend — any man who would subject an 

 animal to more than this, because he was a hired one. 

 Now we will see how far, and in what kind 

 of case avarice would have, and often has, induced 

 people to hire. We will suppose a party of four 

 persons wanted to go thirty-four miles out of town 

 and back ; this, at the old coach fares, would cost 

 about one pound sixteen, a shilling each to the 

 coachman, and say a couple amongst them to guard 

 or porters, making two pounds two ; instead of this, 

 they hire a phaeton, or probably, in their term, a 



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