I don't think it was a moment of madness. I think it was almost like a business transaction.

The thing that made my sense to him was to get rid of him.

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On the 7th of September, my boy took her from the pasture a little before sunset and harnessed her.

While standing at the door, I observed she slavoured freely and was stupid and downcast in her

appearance. I observed that she was loathed to go faster than the walk, and although repeatedly

urged forward by the whip, would shortly resume the walk.

Once or twice on ascending a hill, she stopped for a second as if fatigued, or in pain,

and several times in descending small pitches, she appeared in great danger of falling from the

very bungling manner of using her forefeet. I continued my ride without discovering anything

farther till the latter part of the evening, except that whenever the whip was applied, a distinct

interval was obvious between the time I struck her and the time she perceived the blow.

When she did perceive it, the effect was greater than expected, for she started off as if surprise

had been added to the usual effects of the lash. On my return home in the latter part of the

evening, I experienced great difficulty in keeping her in the road, on account of an obstinate and

constant tendency to the left, that required strong effort to counteract. She could scarcely be

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