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well not to be aware that the robberies often 

 perpetrated in matches against time weigh much 

 more in the deprecating such transactions than does 

 any detestation of the suffering of the animals 

 called upon to perform them. I am aware this 

 is pa5dng a bad compliment to human nature, 

 it is nevertheless true, and I suppose is the 

 same all over the world. Byron found it the 

 same in that fair clime, 



'* Where all, save the spirit of man, is divine." 

 CaQ we then expect here that men will forego 

 their interest from any cause but the fear of 

 the law ; if we make that such as not to deter 

 them, we virtually encourage them. 



The objection raised as to matches against 

 time so often ending in robbery is true enough, 

 but the money laid on such events is not 

 usually sufficient to render them on this account 

 a matter of serious import to society; again, 

 matches against time are comparatively few in 

 the year. 



