American Band of Mercy {concluded'). 



2 . Copy of Band of Mercy Songs. 



3. Twelve Lessons on Kindness to Animals^ containing many 

 anecdotes. 



4. Eight Humane Leaflets, containing pictures and one hun- 

 dred selected stories and poems. 



5. For the President, an imitation gold badge. 



The head officers of Juvenile Temperance Associations and 

 teachers and Sunday-school teachers should be Presidents of 

 15ands of Mercy. 



Nothing is required to be a member, but to sign the pledge or 

 authorize it to be signed. 



Any intelligent boy or girl fourteen years old can form a 

 Band with no cost, and receive what we offer, as before stated. 



To those who wish badges, song and hymn books, cards of 

 membership, and a membership book for each band, the prices 

 are, for badges, gold or silver imitation, eight cents; ribbon, 

 four cents ; song and hymn books, with fifty-two songs and 

 hymns, two cents ; cards of membership, two cents ; and mem- 

 bership book, eight cents. The " Twelve Lessons on Kindness 

 to Animals" cost only two cents for the whole, bound together 

 in one pamphlet. The Humane Leaflets cost twenty-five cents 

 a hundred, or eight for five cents. 



A Good Order of Exercises for Band of Mercy Meetings. 



1. Sing Band of Mercy song or Hymn, and repeat the Pledge together. 

 [See Melodies.] . 



2. Remarks by President, and reading of Report of last Meetmg by Secre- 

 tary. 



3. Readings, Recitations, "Memory Gems," and Anecdotes of good and 

 noble sayings, and deeds done to both human and dumb creatures, with vocal 

 and instrumental music. 



4. Sing Band of Mercy song or hymn. 



5. A brief address. Members may then tell what they have done to make 

 human and dumb creatures happier and better. 



6. Enrollment of new members. 



7. Sing Band of Mercy song or hymn. 



Everybody, old or young, who wants to do a kind act, to make the 

 world happier or better, is invited to address, by letter or postali 



GEORGE T. ANGELL, 



President of the A merican Humane Education Society, the Massachusetts 

 Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to A nimals, and the Parent 

 American Band of Mercy, 19 Milk Street, Boston. 



