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suffering from a cold? Wouldn't such treatment take you 

 back to the Stone Age? If you would have any fighting 

 blood in your body, wouldn't it show itself then? Wouldn't 

 it make you want to do serious bodily injury to that person? 

 Wouldn't every feeling in you cry out against such injustice? 

 Do you think that it would cure your cold? If you are not 

 absolutely sure about it, try it. 



Now, the chicken does not like coal oil any better than 

 you do, and its young skin is just as tender as yours. It 

 receives no more benefit from the dose of coal oil than you 

 would. Take my advice here if you do not take it for any- 

 thing else — never be guilty of such an inhumane act. 



Kindness in the treatment of birds and beasts is no more 

 misspent that it is upon humans. Through kindness this 

 world may be made a place worth living in. 



Never, under any circumstances, be guilty of an unkind 

 act to your fowls, and you will accomplish more than in any 

 other way. I feel ashamed when I look back at dipping those 

 pullets' heads in coal oil. 



After that I bought roup cure — "guaranteed to cure or 

 money refunded." That was what I wanted — something guar- 

 anteed to cure. No old woman's methods for me. 



"Just put this in the water and the fowls cure themselves." 

 So ran the legend. Consider what work I would be spared. 

 It would not be necessary for me to catch the fowls; I need 

 only put it in the water and my troubles would be over. 

 What a fool I was to go to the trouble of dipping those 

 fowls in coal oil! At last I had the thing. A roup cure 

 guaranteed to cure or money refunded. "Just put it in the 

 water." 



Well, I followed directions, put the "cure'' in the water. 

 But I had no warm place in which to put the afflicted birds. 

 Most all of them had roup. Did they get well? How could 



