| Show choates Choat cs sympathy A tender lender feeling for the sufferings and misfortunes of the lower animals Is a trait which seems quite in keeping N with ith the nature of poets and other sensitive beings but we ive do not dot expect to find it commonly in lawyers and poll politicians ti tic ians clans rufus choate Cli oate if we may believe lieve a story in my aly literary two hundred by kate sanborn had more sympathy with nature than knowledge of it during a summer mornings walk b he found a dozen oi oe more dor beetles sprawling spra wIllig on their backs in the highway enjoying the warm sunshine with great care he tipped them all over into a normal position when a friend coming along asked curiously what are you doing sir mr choate why these poor creatures got overturned and I 1 am helping them to take a fresh start but said the other they do that on purpose they are sunning themselves and will go right back as they were this was a new idea to the puzzled pleader but with one of those rare amiles which lit up his sad dark face so BO wonderfully he said never mind ive put them right it if they go back it la is at their own risk 11 |
