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an education in itself for a boy, closely associated with 

 one of the greatest lessons in the nature study of the 

 race. 



Many of the children are likely to have more or less to 

 do with horses in connection with either their pleasure or 

 their work, and the 

 aim of these lessons 

 may well be to estab- 

 lish a fellow-feeling 

 with them and high 

 ideals as to their 

 care and humane 

 treatment. We may 

 see daily instances 

 of misuse, if not of 

 actual abuse, which 

 a few reasonable 

 lessons might have 

 prevented ; and the 

 object at which such 

 education should 

 aim is the develop- 

 ment of general 

 public sentiment. 

 To this end lead the 



children to observe the treatment of horses in the neigh- 

 borhood and then group language lessons about such 

 topics as naturally suggest themselves. Among these 

 will be : care and feeding, blanketing in bad weather, over- 

 driving and overworking. Teach the law of your state 

 with reference to cruelty to animals. Have the children 



Fig. 8. A Noble Animal 

 (Photograph by Charles Irving Rice) 



