The business of the press, then, at this present crisis, is to keep the cause for which we are fighting clearly before us, and this it has done well; also, because we do not fight best in blinders, to tell us all that can be known of the facts of the situation, and this it has done not so well.

They were two powerful black horses, and as they had no blinders on, they could see us coming.

"I'd like to see the man that would persuade me to put blinders or check-reins or any other instrument of torture on my horses.

Don't the simpletons know that blinders are the cause ofwell, I wouldn't like to say how many of our accidents, Joe, for fear you'd think me extravagant and the check-rein drags up a horse's head out of its fine natural curve and presses sinews, bones, and joints together, till the horse is well-nigh mad.

"Has any boy done anything about blinders and check-reins?" asked the president, after a time.

"I had a picnic last Monday," he said; "father let me cut all the blinders off our head-stalls with my penknife.

I told him that every dark night he came from Sudbury I thought of the deep ditch alongside the road, and wished his horses hadn't blinders on.

Father said that might be very true, and yet his horses had been broken in with blinders, and didn't I think they would be inclined to shy if he took them off; and wouldn't they be frightened to look around and see the wagon wheels so near.

I told him that for every accident that happened to a horse without blinders, several happened to a horse with them; and then I gave him Mr. Wood's opinionMr.

He says that the worst thing against blinders is that a frightened horse never knows when he has passed the thing that scared him.

The blinders are there and he can't see that he has passed it, and he can't turn his head to have a good look at it.

He said he'd take off his blinders, and if he had an accident, he'd send the bill for damages to Mr. Wood.

The horses did act rather queerly at first, and started a little; but they soon got over it, and now they go as steady without blinders as they ever did with them.

Suppose a girl saw a mouse with her eyes half covered, wouldn't she run?" Everybody laughed, and the president asked some one to tell him who invented blinders.

"Three groans for blinders, boys.

"The landscapes Van Twiller painted in the dark, or when he had his blinders on, can't be worth very much," insisted Gilbert.

She seldom did wrong, in her own opinion, because the moment she entertained an idea it at once became right, her vanity serving as a pair of blinders to keep her from seeing the truth.

But he cites the driving of horses with blinders, and the fishing for trout with artificial flies, as evidence of the fact that man recognizes no sinfulness in the deceiving of the lower animals, and hence that the duty of veracity is not one of universal obligation.

It would seem as though a man must have blinders before his own eyes, to render him incapable of perceiving the difference between concealing a possible cause of fright from an animal, and intentionally deceiving that animal.]

Wear their blinders big and strong, Dodge each happy sight; Like to keep their faces long; Think the day is night.

In such cases the application of cold water, and the removing of the cause, whether it be from chafing of the blinders, forcing the blood to the head through the influence of badly fitting collars, or any other cause known, is all I can recommend in their case.

He raged about, clawing at it wildly and roaring in it until a charge of shot from the upper windows stirred him to such effort that the keg was smashed to bits and his blinders removed.

Antoine took off the protecting wooden blinders and thrust them in his pocket.

The man who sees things clearly, who is able to recognise both sides of a matter, the man who can see all round a position, the opposite of the man in blinders, that man necessarily has a sense of humour.

And he sez, "Oh, well, fetch on your girl blinders and I'll put 'em on.