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What a delightful thing it is for tutors and carthorses to have a resting day in every week.
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The speaker warmly calls a weekly day of rest a delightful blessing for both tutors and working horses. By placing them together, the comparison treats teaching as demanding work that, like hauling, requires regular relief. The sentence is also lightly humorous because it pairs people and animals in the same picture of hard service and needed rest.
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