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exhausting his wonderful powers, by over-willing 

 exertion, in the flying chase ; — see him now, 



'• Scourged like a panniered ass." 

 He drags, mechanically, his weary limbs one after the 

 other, all but insensible even to pain ; his outstretched 

 neck shews one of the last sure symptoms of ex- 

 hausted nature ; that eye of fire, now shews sunken, 

 glazed, opaque, motionless, and seemingly fixed on 

 vacancy. 



Reader, you have oft (let us hope thoughtlessly) 

 availed yourself of a vehicle where the animal draw- 

 ing it was the prototype of the poor grey ; ay, 

 and have added to his sufierings by the promise of 

 extra reward — for what ? for extra and detestable 

 cruelty on the part of the driver, to gratify your 

 impatience, or save five minutes of time, that, in 

 ordinary circumstances, you must use for better 

 purpose than your fellow-man, if that five minutes 

 was destined to any purpose that could be admitted 

 even as palliation for the infliction of barbarity on 

 the wreck of,a noble animal. 



If by the foregoing description I may have happily 



