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Lessons to 
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By JAMES TERRY WHITE. 
(Copyright, 1909, by the Character Devel- 
opment league.] 
XXIV.—Kindness to Animals. 
sores: N tbe woods 
near Walden 
Pond Henry D. 
Thoreau built a 
house. It was a 
Surprise to the 
raccoons and 
squirrels in the 
wood. But after 
> awhile the news 
s went round that 
athere was among 
athem a man who 
would not do them 
any harm, and 
gradually they 
eame closer and closer, and there grew 
to be a beautiful sympathy between 
him and the birds and animals. They 
would come at his call. 
On taking a squirrel from the tree 
the little creature would refuse to leave 
him and would hide in his pocket. A 
wood mouse whose hole was under his 
house would first run over his shoes 
and at last became so tame that it 
would run up his sleeve and round the 
table when he was at dinner. Such 
communion between man and beast 
has hardly been equaled. 
Not only should we be kind to human 
associates, but we should be kind to 
our animal friends, for they also have 
a place in our lives. 
One reason is that they are so much 
in our power. To take advantage of 
their weakness and our strength is 
mean and belittling. Man is as a God 
to the inferior races. To abuse the 
power which this gives us over the 
helpless beings which Providence has 
placed at our mercy is as mean as it 
Is inhuman. 
We owe much to domestic animals. 
The horse, the ox, the cow give a life 
of service for us, and we owe it to 
them to care for them and to treat 
them with kindness. It is a shame 
when the craven who quails before his 
equals wreaks his unmanly resentment 
on a creature which can neither retali- 
ate nor speak. 
Many are unkind from thoughtless- 
ness. They leave a horse uncovered in 
the cold or use too short a check rein 
or use a check rein with a heavy load 
or on a long journey. Some children 
forget to feed and take care of their 
pets. By keeping domestic animals in 
our stables and homes we have made 
them forget to get their own living 
and therefore owe them food and shel- 
tar and cara 
JAMES T. WHITE. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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The appreciation of the debt due to 
our animal friends for their service to 
mankind is expressed by such kindly 
hearts as Lnndseer, who has painted a 
beautiful dog which he calls “A Dis- 
tinguished Member of the Humane So- 
ciety,’ by another who calls the dog, 
“Man's. Unselfish Friend.” Mrs. 
Browuing’s tribute is “He that loveth 
greatly.” Alexander Pope thinks, “Ad- 
mitied to that sky, his faithful dog 
shall bear him company.” 
A good way to become sympathetic 
with animals is to observe and study 
them. The writer 
when a boy once 
went gunning and 
came upon a mead- 
ow lark perched 
upon a branch sing- 
ing its twilight song 
of happiness and de- 
votion. He blazed 
away. There wasa { 
scurry of feathers, § 
and the song ceased. 
But that song still 
kept on singing, and 
until his dying day ERNEST THOMPSON 
it will never cease SETON. 
to haunt his soul. He has never been 
able to get out of his memory that 
condemning note nor that accusing 
shroud of feathers. Shoot another 
bird? Never! 
A society for the prevention of cru- 
elty to animals would soon have no 
place in the commonwealth if the chil- 
dren would resolve that they will al- 
ways obey the law of kindness to 
dumb animals. 
Ernest Thompson Seton advocates 
the going shooting with a camera only. 
G. T. Angell founded the Massachu- 
setts Society For the Prevention of 
Cruelty to Animals. 
Henry Bergh in early youth became 
interested in animals and devoted his 
life to their protection. He was the 
founder of the American Society For 
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 
Audubon took so much pleasure in 
birds that he learned to paint them to 
keep their beautiful plumage ever be- 
fore him. 
Practice.—Let every one charge his 
mind not to neglect the wants of one’s 
animal friends. 
Literature. 
He prayeth best who loveth best 
All things, both great and small, 
For the dear God who loveth us 
He made and loveth all. 
—S. T. Coleridge. 
Hast thou named all the birds without a 
gun, 
Loved the wood rose and left it on its 
stalk, 
At rich men’s tables eaten bread and 
pulse, 
Unarmed faced danger with a heart of 
trust 
And loved so well a high behavior 
In man or maid that thou from speech re- 
frained, 
Nobility more noble to repay? 
Oh, be my friend and teach me to be thine! 
—Emerson. 
A righteous man regardeth the life 
of his beast.—Solomon. 
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