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ment of offences when committed against man, and 

 of the reverse of this when the dumb animal only 

 suffered. 



I do not profess to have such high consideration 

 of, or for, man as many persons entertain. I have, 

 however, shewn quite as much, and rather more 

 consideration for him, speaking generally, than he 

 ever realised to me, however fair the promise ; and 

 I candidly confess that a stranger horse, or dog, in- 

 spires me with more confidence in their intrinsic 

 worth, than does a stranger man. The former, if 

 exhibiting bad qualities of disposition, are apostate 

 to their race and general nature. I draw a widely 

 different inference as regards the usually styled lord 

 of the creation — for, like other lords, he is not always 

 noble. 



The lower orders, as I have before stated, have 

 not usually any great consideration for dumb animals, 

 that is, they seem to hold them as having no claim 

 to any rank in the scale of existence ; and in the 

 event of a man killing his horse by over- working 

 him, or crushing his cart by overloading it, if the 



