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pursued that he scorns to take unfair advantages with trap or snare, it comes to a contest 

 between wariness and skill. The pure murderous features of gunning are in this way toned 

 down and wiped out, and the sport loses the taint of brutality. It is difficult, however, to 

 understand how trap-shooting can be considered a manly or ennobling pastime. When 

 birds, which are the very emblems of innocence, are captured alive and then set free in front 

 of the so-called sportsman s gun to be slaughtered, the sport becomes butchery, and pretty 

 coarse butchery at that.&quot; 



Aside from domestic animals being more valuable and easily managed that are treated 

 kindly, it is wonderful to what an extent their intelligence and sagacity may be utilized and 



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increased when their education or training is conducted on the principles of kindness. 

 Professor Bartholomew, whose trained horses have excited the wonder and admiration of 

 thousands in this country by their almost incredible exploits, states that the training of them 

 was all done simply by kindness, never by punishment. These horses are sixteen in 

 number, and Professor Bartholomew talks to them as to children, they seeming to understand 

 all that he says. &quot;When they do well, he praises them ; when they come short of their duties, 

 he censures them, and they evidently distinguish the one from the other. He claims that they 

 know and comprehend the meaning of three hundred distinct words as intelligently as human 

 beings. 



The performances of these educated horses are described as follows: They are not 



