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Show A HORSE'S REVENGE. The Society for the Protection of Animals against the cruelty of human animals is not remarkable for its activity in this country. The police appear to think it no business of theirs when carters or coachmen brutally mistreat their horses in the streets or when boys amuse themselves by torturing dogs and cats, or whatever other creatures have the ill luck to fall into their hands. The horses would appear to be aware of the supineness of their supposed protectors, for they have taken the matter into their own hands, or rather into their own teeth and feet. A carter, by dint of hard flogging at his three horses, persuaded them to drag sixteen tons of coal to the foot of the steep hill which leads to the Boulevard Bessieres but his powers of stimulation utterly failed to induce them to proceed any further. A thick steam rose up from their panting sides and nostrils. "Hodge!" said the fiend, and straightaway the carter began to lash and swear. A crowd gathered around the ferocious beast, who abandoned the lash and began to bash his stick into their heads and kick them with hob nailed boots in the sides. The leader of the team took it upon himself to protest against this extreme measure. He turned round, seized the carter's arm with his teeth, tossed him to the ground, and trampled him with his hoofs, then seized him again with his teeth and tossed him about. The crowd and the police, which had looked on approvingly while he tortured the horse, interfered for the protection of the human monster, who was with great difficulty torn bleeding and mangled from the just equine resentment. He is easily punished, but surely some penalty should be inflicted on the railway company which sent out this heavy load of coal ?? drawn up hill by three horses, when twice the number would have barely sufficed for the work. The carter has paid his penalty, let theirs be now inflicted. Why should not the police be armed with full power of dispatch to the ?? any vehicle loaded beyond the power of the horses harnessed to it?-London Telegraph. |