er tried it again. We have endured in silence all the
outrages of many thousands of years, but feel it now time to make
remonstrance. Recent attentions have made us aware of our worth. During
the epizooetic epidemic we had at our stables innumerable calls from
doctors and judges and clergymen. Everybody asked about our health.
Groomsmen bathed our throats, and sat up with us nights, and furnished us
pocket-handkerchiefs. For the first time in years we had quiet Sundays.
We overheard a conversation that made us think that the commerce and the
fashion of the world waited the news from the stable. Telegraphs
announced our condition across the land and under the sea, and we came to
believe that this world was originally made for the horse, and man for
his groom.
But things are going back again to where they were. Yesterday I was
driven fifteen miles, jerked in the mouth, struck on the back, watered
when I was too warm; and instead of the six quarts of oats that my
driver ordered for me, I got two. Last week I was driven to a wedding,
and I heard music and quick feet and laughter that made the chandeliers
rattle, while I stood unblanketed in the cold. Sometimes the doctor hires
me, and I stand at twenty doors waiting for invalids to rehearse all
their pains. Then the minister hires me, and I have to stay till Mrs.
Tittle-Tattle has time to tell the dominie all the disagreeable things of
the parish.
The other night, after our owner had gone home and the hostlers were
asleep, we held an indignation meeting in our livery stable. "Old Sorrel"
presided, and there was a long line of vice-presidents and secretaries,
mottled bays and dappled grays and chestnuts, and Shetland and Arabian
ponies. "Charley," one of the old inhabitants of the stable, began a
speech, amid great stamping on the part of the audience. But he soon
broke down for lack of wind. For five years he had been suffering with
the "heaves." Then "Pompey," a venerable nag,
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