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Excerpt from A Plea for the Horse, in a Few Remarks and Suggestions Upon His Treatment and Management
We are aware that the feeling we personally entertain, and which we would have men exercise towards animals, is not unfrequently characterized as an extreme sensibility, and does not always escape the ridicule of frigid and insensible minds, which are too common, and too often strangers to the better sympathies of our nature. A prominent individual in our vicinity, -was, some years ago, the owner of the cele brated Horse, Bucephalus, for whom he had long cherished a great fondness. Becoming infirm from age, and a burthen to himself, as well as to his keeper, his kind-hearted master, unwilling to trust his favorite steed to the care of those less merciful than himself, resolved to release him from his ao cumulating miseries by taking his life; he therefore applied the deadly steel directly to his heart, in order to subject him to merely a moment's torture. Still retaining a change less attachment for him, be caused his body to be buried in his garden, and erected a stone with an appropriate inscrip tio'rrupon it over his grave, where it may now be seen by those who visit the spot. Ah act so benign in its intention cannot but excite an unmingled admiration of the feelings which prompted it. The cold and thoughtless observer, however, may smile at such a philanthropy, but the spirit of the good Samaritan is ever kind, benevolent, and com passionate.
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