256 A Kindergarten Experiment 



ment of an animal places a responsibility upon the 

 master which no fine reasoning can ever evade. As 

 one who has learned these truths by a bitter experi- 

 ence that involved several innocent lives, I appeal 

 to the readers of these pages to tenderly care for 

 the creatures whose welfare they have assumed and 

 the responsibility for which they cannot escape. 



