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awakened the sympathy of some heart of generous 

 feeling, a still sadder cause for that sympathy exists 

 in the case of those animals worked in the night 

 cabs. Here, as used to be the case in night coaches, 

 such horses as public observation and reprehension 

 would prevent owners working in the honest face of 

 day, are, under the veil of darkness, and the di- 

 minished number of observers, given into the hands 

 of a set of low, brutal savages, whose acts, habits, 

 and, in sooth, in some cases, whose persons policy 

 requires concealment by the silent night. Here is 

 little check indeed on what the lowest specimens of 

 humanity maybe induced to do by avarice, drunken- 

 ness, or brutish disposition. He, or her, returning 

 from some scene of gaiety, hear stroke after stroke 

 of the whip mercilessly applied, and hear it with 

 perfect apathy : is it the apathy of the heart, or 

 that of thought ? the reader must answer that ques- 

 tion for himself. But to shew that it is one of these, 

 I will put a question that I only ask him to answer to 

 himself : Have you never, after your 5ars have told 

 you such treatment of the animal drawing had taken 



