PROFESSOR GLEASON ON DOCKING.
PROFESSOR GLEASON, the great horse tamer, like all true horse lovers, thinks the horse as made by the Creator is about as perfect in form as it is possible to make him. At one of his exhibitions a plump, muscular horse was turned into the ring. It was a pretty animal, all but the tail, which had been bobbed off after the style so much affected by brainless dandies. Pointing his finger pityingly at the animal, the professor said:— "There is as pretty an animal of his class as can be found—if he was all there. I hope that there will come a time when the Legislature of the State of New York, and, for that matter, of every State in the Union, will pass a law making it a penal offense for anyone to disfigure his horse in this most brutal way. It pleases, perhaps, about a couple of hundred Anglomaniacs who drive in Central Park, and displeases the humane and patriotic sentiment of 60,000,000 of the American people." An English lady tells me that even those who drive docked horses in England (where the climate in summer is cool, and they are free from mosquitoes and other troublesome insects common in this country) think docking unjustifiable in America.—Our Dumb Animals.