The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-12-17
WHAT A F0RSE WOULD SAY If
He COULD.


than any other, we ought to be kind to,
1t is the horse and this is about what
he would be glad to say If he could:
Please TO take of these closet fitting
blinders and give me chance 10 use my
eyes like other folks
And then. here's this check rein 1t
pulls my head away up in the air. Ii
hurts my mouth. 1t sometimes gives
me throat disease | can see the road
SO we'll ana am more likely TO stumble
1 can't draw near so much as l could
with my head Gown; and l can't draw
half so easy. A tight cheok-rein puts
me in constant pain. Please TO kindly
take off this check rein. or lengthen it
out so that l can put my head down
where want To when I'm going up hill
And then there this matter of over
loading. If l generally draw kindly, but
some day give out, and tell you as plainly
as ! cnn that you have put on too much
load, it ism { right TO go to beating and
swearing at me- IL is much kinder and
better TO talk kindly and throw off part
of jhe load, or get another horse, or IL the
wheel is in hole ask all the people nesr
to take hold and push.
We horses can't tell our feelings as you
can; sometimes we are dizzy; sometimes
sick; sometimes the hostler drives us half
the night, and then turns us out for a
days work next morning; sometimes lie
don { get up in time to give us our break
fast; sometimes he forgets to water US.
And then we get old and feeble, just as
men do, ana the older We grow, il we have
worked faithfully, the more kindly we
| ought to be treated, and it isn't right
when we have given You lifetime OF
| faithful service to sell Us off in our old
| age for a small sum into the hands of
| hard masters.
Our stomachs are small, and we ought
to be fed aId watered often. We are glad
to get slice of bread. piece of apple
ard sometimes dipper of water
| Always ieed us from the palm of your
hand, so that we may not bite your
fingers
| When you put up at strange stable
never trust the hostler TO give us the oats
| but go out and see that he does it, and
stand by US while wo eat them, and see
| that be don't forget to water us
Never put the bits into our mouths in
! cold weather until you have first warmed
them, so that they won't take the skin
| of our tongues and make it painful 10
eat; you wouldn't like to have frosty
iron bits put in your mouth on cold
a., "a Tn
weather.
And when from old age we can 3 chew
please take us to horse doctor and have
our teeth filed so that we can. When
You lind our blankets blown of in a cold
day, please put them on again, and tuck
them under the harness.
Don't keep twitohing the reins when
you drive Us You wouldn't like to have
anybody twitchIng the reins all the time
If the bit was in your mouth.
Don't overlrive us, and then on the
other hand don't let us stand in the
stable oil day without exercise.
Horses and dogs need exercise every day.
AMI can't be well without It, You
wouldn't like TO be tied up in stall all
day and not permitted TO 90 out
Please to make ~ rule that you will
never ride in a carriage drawn 10y poor,
horse when you can possibly help IL.
If every hoy and girl dn the Boston
public schools, every timc they see poor
miserable looking horse would simply
say so the driver could hear them four
words pity tnat horse, in thirty days
there wouldn te "A poor looking horse
In Boston. No man woull caro- to drive n
uoor suffering horse many days through
city where CO. 600 boys and girls were
ready Co tell him every time he stopped
that they pitied his horse
But above all things kindly remcm ber
that you can do a world OF good 10y sim
ply talking TO us kiudly-tellins us we
are good fellows and all that All we
horses and dogs, aud birds and all dumb
animals know the TOMS of your voices,
and we like to BE- talked to kindly just
rs we'll rs you do. You cln make Us very
happy by Just talking TO u kindly.
Mud whcn 10 becomes necessary that we
should die. don let any body try to Kill us
that don know how. but send to our
society Tor the Prevention OF Cruelty Co
Animals that employs skilful men 20 Kill
horses nrd dogs. anu cats humanely ami
let them send man to xiii us mercifully.
~ ! were a horse aud could talk. these
are some OF toe things should want To
say, and they ore all included I'm the rule
" DO rs you would be done by. Geo. l.
Angel, In our Dunno Animals