A HORSE'S GRIEVANCE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXIII, Issue 17, 21 January 1892, Page 2

A HORSE'S GRIEVANCE.

(To the Editor.)

Sir, — Will you please help mo ? lam only a horso, bub I feel this hob weather very much. My master is kind to mo, and when we are going about the streets sometimes I call ab tho watar troughs for a drink (pleaso thank the kind people for me who put them there), but really those troughs are so filthy dirty with green slime teud stuff that the wator is not sweot, and I often turn away disgusted. One day I saw a great dog bathing in a trough, and you may be sure I couldn't look ab thab trough for somo days utter.

Could nob some guard be placed over the troughs to keep these big doge from spoiling the water ?

We don't grudge them a drink, but I belieVe some of them think they are put there expressly for them to bathe in. Poor fellows, they don't know any better.

Please ask the new Mayor, who haa a practical knowledge of these things, and knows thab we horses line to drink pure water out of sweet clean vessels, to cauee the troughs to be well scrubbed out at least once a week, so that wo poor -horses can have a {jood drink when we want to, and then, sir, overy horso in the city will give you a unanimous vote for doing tho righb thing at the right time, and being the right man in tho right place.—l am, sir, Bob-tailed Jack.