So fearful a result, as a life of anguish to any creature, might be thought sufficient to amend a triviality like the whim of fashion. Still, sad as that consequence is, it is not all which this folly engenders. The larynx, sensitive and delicately constructed, is formed upon different pieces of cartilage. This substance is slowly organized and very yielding. The structures of the youthful horse's frame are not confirmed. All are soft, especially a substance naturally semi-elastic. The bearing-rein forces the head upon the neck; the larynx thereby is compressed. It assumes strange forms, when it is forced from its natural position. As maturity arrives, the various structures harden. Then distortion of the larynx becomes fixed. This organ has been taken from the bodies of old animals, of the shape here depicted. The morbid specimen, from which the following was copied, is, unfortunately, too common, as the late Professor Sewell clearly demonstrated. But, what a price is this to pay for fashion--to sit for hours behind a noble creature, whose exertions are adding to our pleasure, and at the same time to be entailing deformity upon the animal! Physical soundness is of far more importance to the horse than to the human being. The value of the quadruped, its manner of life, its kind of treatment, the sufficiency of its food, and the comparative comfort of its lodging,--all are regulated by the soundness of its body. [Illustration: THE TRACHEA AND LARYNX DISTORTED THROUGH THE CONSTANT USE OF THE BEARING-REIN. ] [Illustration: THE CABMAN'S REMEDY FOR ROARING.]