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MISCELLANEOUS. 



DOCKING. 

 As to docking or robbing the horse of the beautiful and 

 useful appendage (or any part thereof), the tail, I consider a 

 most inhuman and brutal practice. And not only is it inhu- 



MANNER OF DOCKING/, 



CHAPPIE OUT FOR A RIDK. 



SNOB CREATING A SENSATION. 



man, but such treatment disfigures and injures the appearance 

 and beauty of the animal in the eyes of every true horseman. 



It was a fad of " ye olden tyme," I know ; but I did think 

 that the American people of this day of progress, enlightenment, 

 and, I had hoped, refinement, had forever done away with such 

 inhuman and absurd practices. Yet the foolish fancy seems to 

 be revived, and because Snob and Chappie have their horses 



