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against cruelty without possessing a grain 

 more of feeling than those whom they censure. 

 This " delicate-minded creature" we may 

 suppose to have been, if not a gentleman, at 

 least a man of property, and not a person 

 who fished for his living; a consideration 

 which will always excuse a great deal of 

 every-day cruelty ; for the maxim, " qui facit 

 per alium facit per se, ?> does not hold, it 

 would appear, in the procuring and prepa- 

 ration of food ; and a member of the society 

 for the prevention of cruelty to animals, who 

 has fined or sent to prison a poor drayman, 

 upon whom a wife and six children are de- 

 pendant, for flogging a restive horse, sits down 

 with a clear conscience to dine off crimped 

 cod and lobster sauce, the former of which 

 has been cut up alive by the fisherman, and 

 the latter boiled alive by his cook. But to 

 return to our " humane" angler. How deli- 

 cately sensitive must have been the feelings 

 which prompted him to spare the buzzing in- 

 sect of an hour ! But, as perfection itself is, 



