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purposes (though, you may do a good deal in that way 

 for gain or for sport) without due licence of the Secre- 

 tary of State for the Home Department, granted under 

 the authority of the Vivisection Act. 



So it comes about, that, in this present year of grace 

 1877, two persons may be charged with cruelty to ani- 

 mals. One has impaled a frog, and suffered the creat- 

 ure to writhe about in that condition for hours; the 

 other has pained the animal no more than one of us 

 would be pained by tying strings round his fingers, and 

 keeping him in the position of a hydropathic patient. 

 The first offender says, " I did it because I find fishing 

 very amusing," and the magistrate bids him depart in 

 peace; nay, probably wishes him good sport. The sec- 

 ond pleads, " I wanted to impress a scientific truth, with 

 a distinctness attainable in no other way, on the minds of 

 my scholars," and the magistrate fines him five pounds. 



I cannot but think that this is an anomalous and 

 not wholly creditable state of things. 



