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The Perpetual Motion Horse. 



By the perpetual motion horse is meant the 

 horse that is supposed to follow his usual occupa- 

 tion for six days in the week, each day of fourteen 

 hours duration, and on Sunday to put in a couple 

 of hours extra, that is, sixteen hours as a roads- 

 ter. This class of horse is usually found hooked 

 to a heavy delivery wagon, such as are usually 

 used by our city grocers, butchers and retail de- 

 liverers of all classes, and especially in smaller 

 sized places. The owner thinks he cannot afford 

 to keep a horse for buggy purposes only, and 

 therefore when Sunday comes, instead of permit- 

 ting his horse to rest for a day, will hitch him to a 

 buggy or surrey early in the morning, load his 

 family, and sometimes the neighbor's family as 

 well, into the conveyance and start out for a long 

 ride in the country, never considering that while 

 he and his family are enjoying a rest, his poor 

 horse has his head reined up much higher than 

 ordinarily and is compelled to do much harder 

 work on the day of supposed rest than on ordi- 

 nary days. 



Now this is a great error, and the small mer- 

 chant who cannot afford to keep a horse for driv- 

 ing purposes only, ought to be a little considerate 

 with his poor animal and give him one day's rest 

 out of the seven, for no horse nor man can con- 

 tinue to work seven days each week and maintain 

 his health. God has commanded man to work six 

 days and rest on the seventh, and this same in- 

 junction applies to horses as well as to men, ex- 

 cept that this day of rest for the horse is not 

 necessarily on the Sabbath, but it may be any day 

 of the week. On the day of rest assigned to the 

 horse his groom ought to give him a thorough 



