To the Editor of The Times
Sir,
is it not high time that obsolescent creature, the horse, were restricted to the fields where he is happiest? When I opened the exhaust cutout on my Zeppelin-engined chain-driven racing car in Hampstead High Street the other day there was no end of a palaver, the silly beasts scampering everywhere and climbing lamp posts, even when attached to staid dogcarts carrying elderly ladies. I am told there may have been one or two deaths.
These skittish animals behave in much the same way in Henley on Thames, close to my home, when I sound my car's admirably powerful klaxon at a quiet time of the afternoon. They are a danger to pedestrians and other traffic and should be banned from the roads forthwith.
Yours faithfully,
Coussine (Field-Marshal, retd.)
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