Apply the Testament's gentleness, and charity, and tender mercy to a toiling, worn and weary horse ?--Nonsense--these are for God's human creatures, not His dumb ones.

What the pilgrims choose to do, respect for their almost sacred character demands that I should allow to pass--but I would so like to catch any other member of the party riding his horse up one of these exhausting hills once! We have given the pilgrims a good many examples that might benefit them, but it is virtue thrown away.

They have never heard a cross word out of our lips toward each other--but they have quarreled once or twice.

We love to hear them at it, after they have been lecturing us.

The very first thing they did, coming ashore at Beirout, was to quarrel in the boat.