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slow, excruciating death upon these innocent, 

 unoffending creatures. I would also urge you 

 to recommend the same mode to the shell collec- 

 tors, pointing out to them the excessive and 

 wanton barbarity of the method in general use. 

 I would even go further, and refuse to purchase 

 any shells, the inhabitants of which had been 

 subjected to similar torture. I once knew a lady 

 whose benevolent exertions entirely did away the 

 barbarous custom of pegging live lobsters, which 

 formerly subsisted on the western coast. If 

 ladies and gentlemen would act with an equal 

 firmness, they would frequently have it in their 

 power to do much good, and not a little to dimi- 

 nish the aggregate of national cruelty, and con- 

 sequently of national crime. For remember, my 

 young friend. 



" That many a crime, deem'd innocent on earth, 

 Is registered in heav'n ; and these, no doubt, 

 Have each their record, with a curse annex 'd. 

 Man may dismiss compassion from IHS heart, 

 But God will never. When he charg'd the Je\v 

 T'assist his foe's down-fallen beast to rise ; 

 And when the bush-exploring boy, that seiz'd 

 The young, to let the parent bird go free ; 

 Prov'd he not plainly that his meanest worl 



Are yet his care, and have an interest all, 

 All, in the Universal Father's love?" 



/orks 



THE END. 



Cox Htul Baylis, Tiinicis, Great 



