II.
Is the horse a laborer?
Has he a right to wages? What should they be?
How many meals a day should a horse have?
Can you imagine how it would seem if you were very, very hungry to be taken into a place where tables were spread with tempting food, and be driven past them without a bite?
How do hungry horses feel when they see and smell apples and grass?
Can you run as fast when you carry a heavy load as you can with a light load?
Can a horse?
Did you ever burn your mouth?
Did you know that the steel bit, if put very cold in the horse’s mouth, will burn off the skin of the tongue and make the mouth sore—and perhaps prevent the horse from eating?
Could the bit be easily warmed by dipping it into hot water, or breathing on it to take out the frost?
Did you ever stop to think that every creature that is alive can suffer?