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A'0LU]\IE XXV—Ko. 5. 
NEW-YORK, MAY, 18G6. 
NEW SERlES-j|To. 233. 
PRIDE AND IIUJMILITT. .Prom a Painting by George Cole. (U^oupU dd Co., Broaclwaij, Neio-York.) 
Without stopping to discuss the moral traits 
of the largest and proudest of domesticated 
fowls, and the humblest and most abused of 
domestic beasts, nor to point out the merits of 
a fine painting well reproduced in wood, we 
improve the brief space left here to say a w’ord 
in favor of the ass—the “unmitigated ass.” 
Europe abounds in donkeys—so to speak, pony 
asses. They attain considerable size, and in 
fact the line between the donkey and the full 
sized ass is as hard to draw as between a pony 
and a horse. They are very cheap, easy to 
keep, not liable to disease, cleanly, harder 
hoofed and less vicious than liorses or mules, 
willing, capable of strong attachments, having 
a good deal of stupid intelligence, very sure 
footed and careful of themselves, long-lived and 
willful hut not malicious. “ Where there’s a 
will, there’s a way ” to get along without rous¬ 
ing it to one’s disadvantage as a general rule, 
and we have never seen a balkey ass tliat liad 
not abundant provocation. Their bray is the 
only really annoying thing about them. Tliere 
is good use for the botli donkey and tlie ass in 
this country—the former as a poor man’s 
beast of burden and draught, especially in the 
neighborhood of large and small towns where 
vegetables and fruits are brought in a few miles 
for sale upon the streets; and were they once 
common, many other uses w’ould he found for 
them,churning for instance. Besides, there would 
be a considerable sale for them as children’s 
pets, to which purpose they are especially adap¬ 
ted, being smaller and much more trusty tlian 
ponys, and not so liable to stumble, bite or kick, 
that is, if not made vicious by bad treatment, 
