DOCKING HORSES' TAILS by American Shipbuilder

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 19, 1892

DOCKING HORSES' TAILS.

By American Shipbuilder

THE docking of horses' tails by anglomanics who ape English manners and customs should be made a criminal offense, punishable by imprisonment for not less than one

year. Nature provided the horse with a tail, to brush off the flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, just as the Creator furnished man with hands, to protect himself. There are no mosquitoes and scarcely any flies in Great Britain to bother animals. A man who will wantonly cut a horse's tail should be compelled to stand on a sugar dock in hot weather with his hands tied behind his back, and he would then know the agony and torture a poor horse suffers with nothing but a stump of a tail to drive off these pests and tormentors.—American Shipbuilder.