A ROMANCE OF MERCY

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 224, 16 June 1919, Page 5

A ROMANCE OF MERCY

Miss Haycs,_a school mistress of Edmonton, lias"Tor some years past been buying old. and worn-out horses that were still at work, although obviously unfit, and "releasing" them by having them slaughtered. "I have an 'innate love for horses," said Miss Hayes to a "Daily Chronicle" interviewer. "My father kept horses and wns"pns6iouately fond of them. In 1011 I read about the poor, old, worn-out horses being sent abroad to work until they dropped, and I thought I would try and do something to stop the traffic. The only way seeped to be to buy the horses and have them slaughtered, and I began to do this. In 1913 the Horses and Drivers' Aid Society heard of what I was doing, and- helped me until the outbreak of war, when tho horse traffic to the Continent stopped. "Tt camo to.my cars, however, that the horses were' being sent to the country to bb worked tnert, aivay from the eye of the law, so I kept on buying them out of my own money until the following spring, when a wealthy lady, who insists on her name not being mentioned, camo to my help. "With this assistance I bought last year 100 horses, but in 1917, which was the best year I've had, t bought 192 horses, costing over ,£OOO. Every man who possesses a horse for miles around knows mo, and in this way I hear of horses that are getting old and are to be slaughtered, or are lame and in need of a holiday,"