THE ETHICS OF HORSE-KEEPING. 13 
his head. Harsh treatment, though it stop short of 
inflicting physical pain, keeps a nervous horse in 
a state of misery. “An hostler’s angry tone will 
send a quiver of fear—I have seen it scores of 
times — down a whole barnful of stalls”? On the 
other hand, it is perfectly true, as a besotted but 
intelligent stable-keeper once observed to me, “A 
kind word for a hoss is as good sometimes as a feed 
of oats.” A single blow may be enough to spoil 
a racer. Daniel Lambert, founder of the Lambert 
branch of the Morgan family, was thought as a three- 
year-old to be the fastest trotting stallion of his 
day. He was a very handsome, stylish, intelligent 
horse, and also extremely sensitive. His driver, Dan 
Mace, though one of the best reinsmen that the track 
has produced, once made the mistake, either through 
ill temper or bad judgment, of giving Daniel Lam- 
bert a severe cut with the whip, and that single 
blow put an end to his usefulness as a trotter. He 
became wild and ungovernable in harness, and re- 
mained so for the rest of his life. 
One of the best, most docile, most intelligent ani- 
mals that I have known was a powerful brown 
horse belonging to a veterinary surgeon. When the 
doctor was making professional visits in the city 
where he lived, he would often walk from one stable 
to another, and beckon or call to the horse to follow 
him. This the latter would always do, waiting pa- 
tiently meanwhile. But if any strange man or boy 
mounted the gig and attempted to drive him off, he 
could not be made to budge an inch. This animal 
1 I quote this just remark from a published sermon upon dumb 
animals, delivered by the Rev. G. L. Walker of Hartford, Conn. 
