14 LACERATED TONGUE. 
half a pint into the mouth. Half a minute afterward remove the 
hand; allow the head to fall and the fluid to run out of the lips. This 
mixture should be used several times during the day. Beyond this 
nothing is needed, excepting a cool, loose box, a good bed, body and 
head clothing, With flannel bandages, not too tight, about the legs. Work 
should on no account be sanctioned until the last vestige of the disorder 
has vanished, and its attendant weakness has entirely disappeared. 
LACERATED TONGUE. 
Men who become proprietors of animal life undertake a larger re- 
sponsibility than the generality of horse owners are willing to admit. 
They are answerable for their own conduct toward the dumb existence 
over which they are legally invested with the right of property; they are 
also morally accountable for the conduct of those to whose charge they 
entrust their living possessions. The appearance of those men who con- 
gregate about the stable doors of the rich is not very prepossessing. 
Their looks express cunning far more than goodness. Their long narrow 
heads denote none of that wisdom which alone can comprehend and 
practice kindness for its own sake. Their eyes and actions have a 
quickness at sad variance with the affected repose of their manners. 
Their dress declares a vanity, that is much opposed to the humility in 
which a wise man loves to confide. 
There is nothing about horses which should degrade men; yet it 
cannot be denied, that the vast majority of stable men are rogues. How 
can this be accounted for? TJs it difficult to understand, when we see 
the unlimited trust put into a groom’s hands, and the common abuse of 
confidence by the man who enjoys it? No slave proprietor possesses 
the power with which the groom is invested. It is true, the slave owner 
can lash the flesh he terms his property. However, there is in humanity 
a voice which puts some limit to the ill usage of the negro. The groom 
can beat and beat again, at any time or in any place. No voice can be 
raised in appeal to nature. The groom’s charge lives beneath him, and 
day or night is exposed to his tyranny. He may chastise the body and 
steal the food, still, so no human eye detect, the horse will quietly look 
upon the wronger it never can accuse, 
A good man would seek far, before he would repose so large a trust 
in another person. The gentleman generally engages the groom after a 
trivial questioning. THis desire is to have a servant entirely corrupt; 
one who asserts a knowledge how to trick animals into health. No 
examination is made into the real character of the applicant. A vast 
confidence is off-hand reposed in an individual who may be without a 
