TEACHING VILLAGE CHILDREN 

 TO BE HUMANE. 



" Hast thou named all the birds without a gun ? 

 Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk ? 

 At rich man's tables eaten bread and pulse ? 

 Unarmed, faced danger with a heart of trust ? 

 Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine." 



EMERSON. 



" Else they are all the meanest things that are, 

 As free to live, and to enjoy that life, 

 As God was free to form them at the first 

 Who in His sovereign wisdom made them all. 

 Ye therefore who love mercy, teach your sons 



To love it too. 



COWPER. 



" A man who is kind to the animals belonging to him 

 will be thoughtful of the feelings and wishes of his family. 

 A woman who, with patience and tenderness, cares for the 

 domestic creatures around her home, can but be loving to 

 her little ones ; for she must observe how strong is the 

 mother-love in the humblest thing that lives."' 



MRS. F. A. F. WOOD-WHITE. 



