

PURCHASE AND PRELIMINARIES 



and the children are sprinkled over the country- 

 side as victims to man's folly. 



Perhaps all this may sound very discouraging, 

 but be that as it may, isn't it true, and aren't we, 

 lots of us, " monkeying " with an equine " buzz- 

 saw " that needs proper attention and fairly capa- 

 ble engineers to handle it? A danger that is 

 appreciated is half prevented, and if those who 

 realize their own shortcomings in such matters will 

 but see to it that their boys and girls are from 

 childhood accustomed to, and properly instructed 

 in, the methods of managing successfully horses 

 and other animals, they will endow their children 

 with a most valuable mental, moral, physical, and 

 (possibly) pecuniary asset; they will add incalcu- 

 lably to the safety of traffic in all thoroughfares in 

 town and country ; they will open up wide fields of 

 pleasure to their offspring, and they will further 

 by leaps and bounds the proper appreciation, the 

 humane and common-sense management of horses, 

 and, through that, of all kinds of dumb animals. 



The S. P. C. A. has most signally and 

 singularly missed the point at which it has aimed 

 because of the neglect of this very matter of teach- 

 ing the children the proper management of 

 animals, and making it a part of their up-bring- 



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