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suffered the creature to writhe about in that 

 condition for hours; the other has pained the 

 animal no more than one of us would be pained 

 by tying strings round his fingers, and keeping 

 him in the position of a hydropathic patient. 

 The first offender says "I did it because I find 

 fishing very amusing," and the magistrate bids 

 him depart in peace ; nay, probably wishes him 

 good sport. The second pleads, " I wanted to 

 impress a scientific truth, with a distinctness 

 attainable in no other way, on the minds of my 

 scholars/' and the magistrate fines him five 

 pounds. 



I cannot but think that this is an anomalous 

 and not wholly creditable state of things. 



