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Show An Enghrth journal disposes of the practice of if-ing blinders on Imr.-e in Llit) following trenchant term-: " ' We ni'Vcr eon id m e wimt Viee oi ii. lummy lay in n I. .(-,'-. eye. iu.it sliould inakc i. NLe(.-,.i,y covtr it up aud shut out its owner from nt ii-ast two thiid of b ridtful ii;ld ul vinion. Tliu posts say that old age looks backward, but wo never heard of audi an idiosyncrasy charged ' upon horses. The theory that a horse is less apt to be frightened when shut out from everything behind him wo suspect lobe a fallacy, else saddle horses and war horses would be duly blinded. Every horse is as familiar with his own carriage as with his own tail, and as far as his 'personal' fortitude is concerned, is no more disturbrd at btting puisutd by one than another. As lor other scarecrows that come i ehiud, they are mostly familiar to the animal, and the more fully the horse can perceive per-ceive lucm the more quietly does he submit to their approach. Then it is such a pity to cover up one of the most brilliant features of this mos'. brilliant creature. Tho horse has borne such a hand in the civilization this rough-and-ttim'ile world that .t seems not so much a cruelty as a disi;rHce to hide bis form with embarrassing em-barrassing toggery. No wouder we estimate the force in the world as horse power; no wonder the Romans and Germans, each in their own language, designated their aristocracy as riders; no wonder theirdescendants 1 made chivalry a synonym for their highest virtues. Let the horse be given his due, and unblinded." |