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now do on those of its roast missionary. Sportsmen will 

 find a pleasure in watching the habits of animals out in the 

 millennial woods such as their predecessors never thrilled 

 with in accomplishing their destruction. John Smith will 

 no longer write proudly to his British newspaper, as he does 

 now, that he has " shot a nightingale in Devonshire, the 

 first one that has ever strayed there, as it was singing on a 

 thorn-bush." " Deer assassins," " bird murderers," " fish 

 pirates," and " buffalo thugs " will be the names given by 

 the newspapers of the nineteen hundredth century to the 

 killers of animals, and we shall then say of vivisectionists 

 and of ladies with birds in their bonnets, as some people now 

 do of the Indians, that " the only good ones are the dead 

 ones." Cruelty in the treatment of them will everywhere 

 give place to kindness ; dread in their demeanor to confi- 

 dence. Monkeys will no longer examine the cakes given 

 them by little boys to make sure that they contain no red 

 pepper, or cats go a roundabout way to their lying-in places 

 to keep their kittens from being drowned. The phrase to 

 " lead a dog's life " will denote in that age a very desirable 

 kind of existence ; and such proverbs as " slaving like a 

 horse," " uneasy as a toad under a harrow," and " getting 

 the wrong pig by the ear," will need for our children's chil- 

 dren in the thousandth generation a dictionary of the dead 

 languages for their explanation. Good society will open its 

 doors to take in other and worthier representatives of their 

 race than the poodles and lap-dogs its " four hundred " are 

 so intimate with now. Traits and qualities which exist in 

 them at present only as a germ will develop under the 

 touch of kindly companionship into forms of unsuspected 

 beauty. They will unite in drawing all together as one 

 mighty team, without lash or goad, the great car of progress. 

 And at last, with the material world all perfected, as some 

 day it must be, and our human world all freed from its sins 

 and shames and wrongs, as some day it shall be 



" Every tiger madness muzzled, every serpent passion killed, 

 Every grim ravine a garden, every blazing desert tilled," 



love shall have in the animal world all forms of life as its own ; 



" The spirit of the Lord 

 Lie potent upon man and beast and bird " ; 



and in no small degree literally as well as figuratively, old 

 Isaiah's prophetic vision shall be fulfilled : " The lion shall 



