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Show KINDNESS TO ANIMALS. There are certain things which aii boys and girls should remember: 1. Never to stick pins into buttenlics and otVr insects, utiles you Avould like tj haw somebody stick pins into you. 2. XeTcr to cany poultry with their heads hanging dowii. unless you would like to be cirried in the tame wfcy. 3. Xever to throw stones at those harmless, creatures, the frogs, unless you would like to have stones thrown at you in the same way. 4. That nearly all snakes are harmless and useful. use-ful. 5. That earthworms are harmless and useful, and that when you use them in fishing they ought to be killed instantly, before you start, by plunging plung-ing them into a dish of boiling water. fl. Tct it k very cruel to keep fish in glass globes slowly dying. 7. 1 hat it is kind to feed the birds in winter. 8. That bits should never be put in horses' mouths in cold weather without first being warmed. 9. That it is cruel to keep twitching the reins while driving. 10. That when your horse is put in a -strange ..i i i.m.i i ii -u'.' I .i . I iW)li J 1 ' iLiwn,yiummiii him stable you should always be sure that he is properly fed and watered, and in cold weather that his blanket blan-ket is properly put on. 11. That you should never ride after a poor-looking poor-looking horse when you can help it. Always look at the horse and refuse to ride after u poor-looking one, or a horse whose head is tied up by a tight eheckivin. -2. That you should always talk kindly to every dumb creature. l-'J. That you should always treat every dumb creature as you would like to be treated yourself if you were in the creature's place. |