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I lifted up the collar, and saw such a pair of, not 

 merely galled, but absolutely diseased, shoulders, 

 as were sickening to look at ; I took his number 

 and dared him to take the cab on to the stand with 

 that horse. It ended in his putting another in. 



The reader may quite dismiss any surmise, if he 

 entertains one, that I am likely to magnify 

 grievances of this sort, or represent that which is 

 only ordinary inconvenience and endurance, as 

 intense suffering. From some natural or physical 

 cause, I am personally most singularly insensible to 

 bodily pain ; it is fortunate for me that I am so, for 

 few men have been hurt in various ways as much 

 as myself; I, therefore, am not likely to give way to 

 maudlin feeling as regards common endurance in 

 man or beast; so it may be depended on, that 

 when I use the term " suffering," it is so to the full 

 extent of the implication. 



The class of men who drive these street cabs for 

 employers, are not usually those from whom we 

 may expect much feeling or consideration for the 

 animal under their control ; bat they are rendered 



