DOCKING HORSES.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " srEcneroa.-1
Srs,—Your well.known advocacy of the claims of the animal world upon our attention encourages me to bring before your notice the increasing fashion of driving "docked" horses in the best-appointed carriages. I believe the " docking " is effected by cutting through the thick flesh of the tail, and staunching the blood by searing the wound with red-hot irons. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals may probably have taken steps to stop so brutal and senseless a practice; but if so,. it has not been successful.
I think your readers should be reminded that the beautiful creatures which are maimed simply to gratify a love of change, are thus deprived of their natural and only defence against the flies, whose bites are allowed to be a constant torture through the summer months, and that we should each and all en- deavour by every means in our power to prevent the infliction of so great a wrong upon our faithful and helpless servants. In the hope that your readers may see this abuse in the same light
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