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prejudice : on the contrary, it will endure fatiguel, 
even to death, for our benefit. Providence seems 
to have implanted in him a benevolent disposition* 
and a fear of the human race, with, at the same 
time, a certain consciousness of the services we can 
render him. We have, however, one instance of 
recollection of injury, and an attempt to revenge it. 
This is inserted in a work of D. Rolle, Esq. of 
Torririgton, in Devonshire : — A Bayonet, one of 
whose hunters had never tired in the longest chase, 
once encouraged the cruel thought of attempting 
completely to fatigue him. After a long chase, 
therefore, he dined, and again mounting, rode 
hirn furiously among the hills. "When brought 
to the stable, his strength appeared exhausted, 
and he was scarcely able to walk. The groom, 
possessed of more feeling than his brutal master, 
could not refrain from tears, at the sight of so 
noble an animal thus sunk down. The Baronet, 
some time after, entered the stable, and the horse 
made a furious spring upon him, and had not the 
groom interfered, would soon have put it out of 
his power ever again to misuse his animals. 
The barbarous custom of docking the tails, 
and cutting the ears of horses, is in this country 
very prevalent. The former, principally with 
waggon horses, under the pretence that a bushy 
tail collects the dirt of the roads ; and the latter, 
from the idea that they are rendered more elegant 
in their appearance. Thus, from ideal necessity, 
we deprive them of two parts of their body prin- 
cipally instrumental, not only to their own case 
and comfort, but in their utility to us. By taking 
away their ears, the funnels are destroyed which 
they always direct to the place from whence any 
sound is heard, and they are thus rendered nearly 
deaf. And in the loss of their tail, they find even 
a still greater in convenience. During summer. 
