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that if by an improper and merciless application of the 

 whip, they force the poor brute to keep pace with 

 the superior horse, they have the same credit 

 awarded them for possessing a valuable animal as 

 the man who is taken along cheerfully, willingly, and 

 without apparent effort, on the part of his horse. 

 Contemptible, cruel, and evincing the lowest of all 

 vanity is such proceeding ; constantly as we see it, 

 its only extenuation is, that ignorance (also of the 

 lowest order) is usually combined with it. 



In riding we often see very similar conduct pur- 

 sued : we will suppose a man of moderate weight, 

 say eleven stone, and a good rider, is trotting merrily 

 along on a clever hack, quite up to his weight, at 

 the rate of twelve miles an hour ; some other whose 

 personal weight is fourteen, and perhaps, as bad a 

 rider as the other is a good one ; the latter's emu- 

 lation is excited, and without one thought of the 

 different effect of the difference of weight, and still 

 less of the difference of good and bad hands and 

 seat, he forces his panting over-loaded animal along 

 at the same rate as the other : he exhibits precisely 



