2 ROAD, TRACK, AND STABLE. 
and draw cheques for his sustenance and keeping, but 
all without a single thought of the animal as having 
a character, a mind, a career of his own; as being 
susceptible to pain or pleasure; as a creature for 
whose welfare they have assumed a certain respon- 
sibility, of which they cannot get rid, although they 
may forget it or deny its existence. Even among 
people who are intelligent, religious, and kind-hearted, 
as the world goes, there is sometimes found, as we all 
know, especially when their own convenience is con- 
cerned, an astonishing indifference to the sufferings 
of dumb beasts. 
Never shall I forget the shock produced upon my 
infant mind by a case of this sort in which a deeply 
venerated bishop was the actor. The good man de- 
scribed in my presence the great difficulty that he 
had recently experienced, upon arriving in town, in 
obtaining a conveyance from the railroad station to 
the house where he was to stay, two or three miles 
distant. Through some mistake, no carriage had been 
sent for him; and by the liverymen to whom the 
bishop applied he was told that all their horses were 
so wearied and jaded, a huge picnic or funeral hav- 
ing just occurred in the village, that they absolutely 
could not send one out again. But the successor of 
the Apostles so wrought upon the stable-keepers by 
his eloquence — thus he narrated, without suspicion 
of the awful judgment that was passing upon him by 
youthful innocence, sitting unnoticed in a corner — 
that some unlucky, overtired brute was finally dragged 
from his stall and sent off upon the five-mile jaunt. 
Now the day was warm, to be sure, and the bishop a 
stout man; still, being in the prime of life, he could 
