The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . unreasonable orcruel it may be, wouldseem to transcend even^ the limits of reason and// common sense. It{/ may be mentioned thateven the prime-minis-ter of England wouldnot have the door ofhis house opened bythe hand of a woman inFig. 301.—Both methods of cheeking. answ
The art of taming and educating the horse : with details of management in the subjection of over forty representative vicious horses, and the story of the author's personal experience : together with chapters on feeding, stabling, shoeing, and the practical treatment for sickness, lameness, etc: with a large number of recipes . unreasonable orcruel it may be, wouldseem to transcend even^ the limits of reason and// common sense. It{/ may be mentioned thateven the prime-minis-ter of England wouldnot have the door ofhis house opened bythe hand of a woman inFig. 301.—Both methods of cheeking. answer to the call of a visitor ; it must be done by a liveried servant. Neither wouldhe appear in Fleet Street, London, without a regulation haton ; for so inexorable is the custom of society, that either wouldbe regarded sufficient to ostracise him socially. In China the so-cial standing of alady is determinedby the extremesmallness of herfeet, and to reducetheir size to thesmallest degreepossible, they aresubjected to the most cruel com- Fig. 302.—Long nails. Absurd Chinese custom, pression from infancy, which leaves her little more than ahelpless, hobbling cripple ; while the social standing of themen is regulated by the length of the finger nails, which areprotected with the greatest assiduity, until they grow to a. CHECKING AND BLINDERS. 3 degree that interferes in a very serious manner with the useand freedom of the hands. Even the lowest savages are en-slaved by the same inexorable law. This we see shown in athousand different ways, many of them at the expense of eventhe most extreme and long-continued torture. Thus, certaintribes of the American Indians flatten and compress the headof the child with a board, while savages in other portions of theworld distort different parts of the body in different ways,tattooing, filing and coloring the teeth, wearing rings in the
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