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placed to the account of stupidity, indolence, and hypocrisy, or a mixture of the 

 three, which so often disgraces the streets, with the nuisance of cast-off animals in 

 distress, and dying by inches, to the harrowing up of real sensibility. 



To conclude with poor Pug, he was taken by the young female Samaritan, 

 above quoted with honour, into a warm room, and placed upon the carpet ; but still 

 the constant affections of the beast lingered after his false-hearted and treacherous 

 mistress, and it was really an affecting sight, to witness the animal's anxious and 

 longing countenance, and to see him upon his hinder legs begging to have the door 

 opened, that he might return to his beloved home ! I, who can witness unmoved 

 the sudden and easy death of any animal, am not ashamed to publish that my 

 heart ached painfully at this sight nor that I said within myself, may I be 



d d if I would desert such an animal ! I did better I caressed it tied a 



cloth gently and loosely over its head and neck, yet securely stunned it with 

 several heavy blows of a hammer, on the back part of the head, and instantly put 

 it, head downwards, into a full pail of water, holding it down fast with a shovel 

 until dead -and happy ! You, who are in similar circumstances, reflect, and do 

 likewise." 



