Show 1 off OF A LUI animals seldom attain the age that nature allowa allows them we grudge them their nourishment overtire them and do not give them proper shelter and then we take from them their milk fleece bide hide flush flesh in act fact everything how can you eer ener grow old when the but butcher 1 Is ls waiting lor for you at the stable door with a knife useless to speak of these poor victims of our need to ghe us long life they do not nm live out their own on time supposing that an animal ie is well treated that it suffers neither hunger nor cold that it laes in peace without fear ot of knacker or butcher under these good how bow many ears will 1 it A dog at anent or twenty five eari eart can no bouget biag hime t f along a pig is a i tottering voter an at wenty twenty at u at the most a cit no longer chabej u mice it sayi good bye 0 to the jos of the roof root and re rt r t 1 urea tires to some cornei corner of the granery to die in peace the goat and sheep at ten or fifteen touch extreme old age ago the rabbit is at the end of its a skein koin at eight or ten and the ml aber r able rat it if it alnes tour four ears la Is looked upon among its kind as 4 A prodigy of longevity the pigeon may live from his bix to ten years the guinea foul hen and arkey turkey twelve A goose lives longer it t Is true that in its quality of goose it t does not worry the goose attains wenty twenty five years add even a good deal more the goldfish spar rov birds tree free from care always alays singing always alays frisking happy as possible with a ray of sunlight in ta the foliage and a grain of hempseed hemp seed live as long as the gluttonous goose longer than the stupid turkey these very happy little birite birda live from twenty to twenty five years aa As to man if he leads do a regular life be he often lives to eighty or ninety sometime he reaches a hun dred or even more but should he attain only the ordinary age the average age ae as they say that is about forty then be he is to be consider ed a privileged creature as to length of life and besides for man my dear children length of life is not measured exactly according to the number of years he lives most who works moat most when god calls us to him let us take with us the sincere esteen of others and the conscious ness of having done our duty to the end and whatever our age we shall have lived long enough jean joan henrt henri fabre in the etoir book of science |