BIPEDS AND QUADRUPEDS. 27 



worse by the avarice of their masters. Their wages 

 are so low, that they depend chiefly on the extra 

 work they can get out of the horse, who has, not 

 figuratively speaking but absolutely, to work for 

 master and man ; thus, after earning the required 

 sum, as his day's work, for the former, he begins 

 his labour for the latter. This might be no great 

 hardship on the horse, or reprehensible conduct on 

 the part of the driver, if he only took fares leading 

 towards home ; but supposing the cab to be in the 

 Strand, and the animal's home to be in Moor-fields, 

 if a fare offered to go to Knightsbridge or Brompton, 

 the unfortunate brute would be driven there for the 

 benefit of the man, though a full day's work had 

 been performed for the master. Let any one cast 

 his eye on the cabs he sometimes sees returning to 

 their home ; let him observe the jaded gait of the 

 poor horse after the harass of his day's exertion. 



See that fine old grey, now white with age ; his 

 head alone would suffice to shew the high breeding 

 of himself and ancestors. The small taper nose, 

 whose nostril is now distended with pain and 



