Note to the Reader 



Since, then, the animals are creatures with 

 wants and feelings differing in degree only from 

 our own, they surely have their rights. This 

 fact, now beginning to be recognized by the 

 Caucasian world, was first proclaimed by Moses 

 and was emphasized by the Buddhist over two 

 thousand years ago. 



THIS BOOK was made by my wife, Grace 

 Gallatin Thompson Seton. Although the 

 handiwork throughout is my own, she chiefly 

 is responsible for designs of cover, title-page, 

 and general make-up. Thanks are due her also 

 for the literary revision, and for the mechanical 

 labor of seeing the book through the press. 



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