THE ETHICS OF HORSE-KEEPING. 
F aman could go into open market and for two or 
three hundred dollars purchase the lifelong devo- 
tion of a friend, though a humble friend, it would he 
accounted a wonderful thing. But that is exactly 
what happens, or might happen, whenever a horse is 
bought. You give him food, lodging, and the reason- 
able services of a valet, in return for which he will 
not only further your business or your pleasure, as 
the case may be, to the best of his ability, but he will 
also repay you with affection, respond to your ca- 
resses, greet you with a neigh of pleased recognition, 
and in a hundred ways of his own exhibit a sense of 
the relationship. 
There are men to whom a horse is only an animate 
machine: they will ride and drive him, hire grooms 
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