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animals are capable of attachment, and seem to 

 have a decided sense many of them at least 

 of what is amiable and good. How much 

 nobler and more pleasing is this view of their 

 character, and how much more grateful a 

 conduct in accordance towards them, than the 

 considering them mere brutes, and treating them 

 as brutes most commonly are treated ! 



PISCATOR. I grant your views are pleasing, 

 and may have some influence if inculcated and 

 adopted. But there is the difficulty in this 

 busy world of ours, in which the business or 

 pleasure of the hour occupies almost entirely 

 most minds, and in which too seldom is there 

 just consideration given for the feelings of our 

 fellow-men. 



AMICUS. You spoke of the Lathkin as too 

 strictly preserved. That surprises me ; I 

 mean the accomplishment of the thing, being 

 told by you of the difficulties attending it here 

 in your Lake District. Pray how is it ef- 

 fected ? 



PISCATOR. What is difficult in Westmore- 

 land, almost impracticable, is easy in Derby- 

 shire. In the one county ours landed pro- 

 perty is much more divided than in the other ; 



