TEACHING VILLAGE CHILDREN 

 TO BE HUMANE. 



O much preventable cruelty 

 in this world arises from 

 ignorance that it seems the 

 duty of every one to try and pass 

 on to others any useful know- 

 ledge they may happen to have 

 acquired, and thus increase the 

 general sum of happiness in the 

 hearts and lives of those who live around them. 

 This general axiom is, I think, especially true 



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