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were distressed ; what, then, was to tell her that the 

 increased pace (postmasters usually direct their boys 

 to go, when employed in the service of persons of 

 the higher order) did create any distress to the 

 horses ? Now had it been proposed to send her 

 favourite riding horse, on any occasion, where he 

 would have been called on to go twelve miles within 

 the hour, under a burning sun, and return in the 

 same time, her sympathy would have been imme- 

 diately awakened, not because one property was 

 another's and the other her own, but because her 

 attention would have been called to the one, but was 

 not to the other. I am quite ready to admit that 

 four post horses, if in fine working condition, might 

 not suffer much in doing twelve miles an hour, very 

 fast though the pace is, and I admit the lady's horse 

 would probably have done so with the same exertion ; 

 all I condemn is, that the generality of persons never 

 take the trouble to consider whether they are the 

 means of causing suffering, or not, or care at all 

 about it if they are. 



Epsom races, though they are patronised by the 



