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through the coldest winter night, knee deep in frozen 

 snow, with icicles hanging from all parts of their 

 bodies, without the slightest shelter. This he saw 

 without one feeling of pity, not from any wish to be 

 cruel, but because he could not be persuaded they 

 suffered by it. It is true the same cold that would 

 have been perhaps death to one of his horses, might 

 create little inconvenience to the cow, accustomed to 

 the open air ; but the cow feels the pain of cold as 

 much as the racer or hunter, when the influence of 

 cold affects both in an equal degree. It is only in 

 the different degrees of cold, that the difference be- 

 tween the feelings of the two animals exists. Was 

 ignorance here an excuse ? most certainly not, it was 

 downright cruelty ; its only trifling palliation was, it 

 was not designed cruelty. 



My task is now becoming one of peculiar delicacy, 

 for such it ever must, and ever should be held, where 

 woman is the theme. In most cases it is a delight- 

 ful one, the only difficulty being to procure a proper 

 offering for so fair a shrine ; unwelcome, then, be- 

 comes the task, for ungracious must appear the act 



