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if once introduced. It costs but very little to keep 

 them, and they will do all kinds of work up to the 

 draft of 600 or 800 Ibs. You frequently see here a 

 span of them trotting off in a cart, with brisk and even 

 step. Sometimes they are put on as leaders to a team 

 of horses. I once saw on my walk a heavy Lincoln- 

 shire horse in the shafts, a pony next, and a donkey at 

 the head, making a team graduated from 18 hands to 

 6 in height; and all pulling evenly, and apparently 

 keeping step with each other, notwithstanding the dis- 

 parity in the length of their legs. 



It would be unjust to that goodwill to man and 

 beast, which is being organised and stimulated in Eng- 

 land through an infinite number of societies, if I should 

 omit to state that, at last, a little rill of this benevo- 

 lence has reached the donkey. That most valuable and 

 widely-circulated penny magazine, " The British Work- 

 man," and its little companion for British workmen's 

 children, " The Band of Hope Eeview," have advocated 

 the rights and better treatment of this humble domestic 

 for several years. His cause has also been pleaded in a 

 packet of little papers called " Leaflets of the Law of 

 Kindness for the Children." And now, at last, a 

 wealthy and benevolent champion, on whom the mantle 

 of Elizabeth Fry, his aunt, has fallen, has taken the 

 lead in the work of raising the useful creature to the 



