what about the second?
Tom Nero  has turned into the professional cruelty of a man at work. Mistreatment of his horse and overloading, has collapsed, breaking its leg and upsetting the carriage.
The Four Stages of Cruelty
 Tom Nero has grown up and become a hackney coachman, and the recreational cruelty of the schoolboy has turned into the professional cruelty of a man at work. Tom's horse, worn out from years of mistreatment and overloading, has collapsed, breaking its leg and upsetting the carriage. Disregarding the animal's pain, Tom has beaten it so furiously that he has put its eye out. In a satirical aside, 
what is ''the four stages of cruelty''? is a series of four printed engravings that depicts a different stage in the life of the fictional Tom Nero. whose work is it? English artist William Hogarth what is the first stage of cruelty? He is shown being assisted by other boys to insert an arrow into a dog's rectum
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The Four Stages of Cruelty [SEP] "Second stage of cruelty"
In the second plate, the scene is Thavies Inn Gate (sometimes ironically written as Thieves Inn Gate), one of the Inns of Chancery which housed associations of lawyers in London. Tom Nero has grown up and become a hackney coachman, and the recreational cruelty of the schoolboy has turned into the professional cruelty of a man at work. Tom's horse, worn out from years of mistreatment and overloading, has collapsed, breaking its leg and upsetting the carriage. Disregarding the animal's pain, Tom has beaten it so furiously that he has put its eye out. In a satirical aside, Hogarth shows four corpulent barristers struggling to climb out of the carriage in a ludicrous state.