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phobia; and most certainly the dog-carts frightened 

 horses on the road. Had these two objections never been 

 made, the dogs might have worked on till doomsday 

 before their cause would have been taken up; and even 

 when the question of stopping the nuisance was dis- 

 cussed, more than one member defended it ; we will 

 hope, whoever they were that did so, that it arose from 

 a cause, corroborative proof of the truth of what I 

 have asserted, namely, that many animals suffer much 

 from people being ignorant of how and where they 

 do suffer. 



I perceive I have frequently made use of the word 

 ignorance in the foregoing sheets, and I feel some 

 apology necessary for having done so ; I in no w^ay 

 meanit offensively, but asa short term, to express want 

 of practical knowledgeof particular causes and effects. 



There are few, if any, services to which animals 

 are applied, in which they suffer more from the want 

 of knowledge of those using them, than they do in 

 ordinary draught ; it is quite true, that if, by bad con- 

 struction of carriages, or the bad application of har- 

 ness, we only enable an animal to draw (say) eighteen 



