Why sufficeth not the
beast of burden, which renounceth and is reverent?
The strangest thing of all was that those twenty-four donkeys, instead of being iron-shod like any other
beast of burden, had on their feet laced shoes made of leather, just like the ones boys wear.
The elephant, which its owner had reared, not for a
beast of burden, but for warlike purposes, was half domesticated.
Kolk gave me a sign to his father--a lidi, or
beast of burden, crudely scratched upon a bit of bone, and be-neath the lidi a man and a flower; all very rudely done perhaps, but none the less effective as I well knew from my long years among the primitive men of Pellucidar.
Ca- pable of high attainments as an intellectual and moral being--needing nothing but a comparatively small amount of cultivation to make him an orna- ment to society and a blessing to his race--by the law of the land, by the voice of the people, by the terms of the slave code, he was only a piece of property, a
beast of burden, a chattel personal, nevertheless!
"A little trip to Fredericksburg would do me no great harm," thought he; "for I, poor
beast of burden that I am, have so much to annoy me, that I don't know what a good appetite is.
The prison, the insane asylum, the squalid chamber of the almshouse, the manufactory where the demon of machinery annihilates the human soul, and the cotton field where God's image becomes a
beast of burden; to these and every other scene where man wrongs or neglects his brother, the apostles of humanity have penetrated.
The overweighted
beast of burden, or the overweighted slave, can for certain instants shift the physical load, and find some slight respite even in enforcing additional pain upon such a set of muscles or such a limb.
But he never thought of it, except when he was dragged to it--he lived like a dumb
beast of burden, knowing only the moment in which he was.
Well beaten that day,
Beast Of Burden was then tried over fences to no avail and has been on and off the track since.
We came here with very high hopes for
Beast Of Burden and he unseated his jockey, and then the horses were just not right.
Beast Of Burden was in front when unseating his rider at the second-last at Chepstow in October on his fencing bow.
beast of burden - an animal such as a donkey or ox or elephant used for transporting loads or doing other heavy work