138 FACT AGAINST FICTION. 



stump (n- field, preachers, it has not been deemed 

 imj^ious to clothe that first step to manhood without 

 the tail, — according to Darwin, — the hideous bush- 

 man or the Ashantee with the alles^ed ^' ima^'e of 

 God." While this is done, multitudes of the white 

 poor at home, because they are u'lilte and at home, 

 are neglected. So, in a less degree, do we find 

 that a similar state of things exists as to the birds 

 and beasts of our own country ; laws for the 

 j)rotection of the fish-destroying gulls are made, 

 the gull not being food for the masses, but mas- 

 ticating or swallowing with innnense and quick 

 voracity a vast deal of fish, which otherwise might 

 have gone to supply the different markets. 



At the same time that this protection is voted by 

 the wise men in Parliament, ^'protection" to the 

 food of the well-to-do man's table, the pheasant, 

 partridge, grouse and hare, and to the wholesome 

 fare supplied by the thirty thousand tons of rabl)it- 

 mcat to the exigent poor, is growled at and sought 

 to be obviated. The rabbits under-sell the farmer, 

 the farmer, therefore, hates them, and so does the 

 l3utclier, who sees the poor pass by his board, and 

 seek the poulterer's shop. 



If I had time to mark the amazing ignorance of 



