Be good and kind to all that breathes,Act up our good Saviour's laws,Have tender feelings in your hearts,For all the poor, harmless dumb creatures.
Be good and kind to all that breathes,Act up our good Saviour's laws,Have tender feelings in your hearts,For all the poor, harmless dumb creatures.
Be good and kind to all that breathes,
Act up our good Saviour's laws,
Have tender feelings in your hearts,
For all the poor, harmless dumb creatures.
My hens are all in better order since I had a cellar for them, than they were before, and lay me double the eggs. Hens must not suffer with the cold, nor no other sufferings, you cannot have eggs. Raise your chickens on good flour bread, it will make them healthy, grow fast and smart; they must be fed often; I do not think meal is very good for hens or chickens; meal is splendid for cows. If you are forced to give your hens or chickens meal, you must sift it fine and scald it and cool it. I used to raise my chickens on flour middlings dough, it is splendid for them. Flour bread is better. I do not set any hens now. You must not let young chickens go in cold nor wet ground, nor rain, &c., &c. You must boil some corn in winter, and give it to your hens warm, besides other victuals.
Human, those that are cruel to dumb creatures and to human too, and murder, rob, steal, cheat, contrary, spite, deceit, and take the advantage of any one, to damage them in any way, &c., &c., those will go to everlasting punishment hereafter, and have the greatest punishment.
Be tender hearted, be kind one to another, do your duty to those who still live.God requires human to do as they wish to be done by,In deeds, words and thoughts, to human and dumb creatures too.The greatest sin is, in the sight of God, is to cruel the poor harmless dumb creatures,They cannot speak nor help themselves.The next sin is to cruel sick human,The next sin is to cruel any who cannot help themselves,And especially the cruel to the poor, harmless dumb creatures.The Lord will cut asunder the cords of such sinners.This world a place of misery,I pray for thy kingdom to come, to destroy all sin,O Lord, land me in heaven, that holy, happy place,When I bid adieu to this vain world,My good God in heaven, my only true friend,Has held me up with His arm, and all I have to lean upon.Christ, a man of grief, he wept so much himself,On him I lean, who not in vain,He counts and treasures up my tears.
Be tender hearted, be kind one to another, do your duty to those who still live.God requires human to do as they wish to be done by,In deeds, words and thoughts, to human and dumb creatures too.The greatest sin is, in the sight of God, is to cruel the poor harmless dumb creatures,They cannot speak nor help themselves.
Be tender hearted, be kind one to another, do your duty to those who still live.
God requires human to do as they wish to be done by,
In deeds, words and thoughts, to human and dumb creatures too.
The greatest sin is, in the sight of God, is to cruel the poor harmless dumb creatures,
They cannot speak nor help themselves.
The next sin is to cruel sick human,The next sin is to cruel any who cannot help themselves,And especially the cruel to the poor, harmless dumb creatures.
The next sin is to cruel sick human,
The next sin is to cruel any who cannot help themselves,
And especially the cruel to the poor, harmless dumb creatures.
The Lord will cut asunder the cords of such sinners.This world a place of misery,I pray for thy kingdom to come, to destroy all sin,O Lord, land me in heaven, that holy, happy place,When I bid adieu to this vain world,My good God in heaven, my only true friend,Has held me up with His arm, and all I have to lean upon.Christ, a man of grief, he wept so much himself,On him I lean, who not in vain,He counts and treasures up my tears.
The Lord will cut asunder the cords of such sinners.
This world a place of misery,
I pray for thy kingdom to come, to destroy all sin,
O Lord, land me in heaven, that holy, happy place,
When I bid adieu to this vain world,
My good God in heaven, my only true friend,
Has held me up with His arm, and all I have to lean upon.
Christ, a man of grief, he wept so much himself,
On him I lean, who not in vain,
He counts and treasures up my tears.
NANCY LUCE.
West Tisbury, Dukes County, Mass., 1871.
This reading below is on my gravestones:
Poor little heart,Ada Queetie,O my heart is consumedIn the coffin under ground,O how I feel for her,She and I could never part,She was my own heart within me,She had more than common love,And more than common wit.Poor little heart,Beauty Linna,She has consumed,In the coffin under ground,O how I feel for her,She was a cunning little heart.PoorTweedle, Tedel, Beebe, Pinky,Poor dear little heart,Sore broke in her,I am left broken-hearted,She was my own heart within me,She had more than common wit,She is taken from the evil to come.
Poor little heart,Ada Queetie,O my heart is consumedIn the coffin under ground,O how I feel for her,She and I could never part,She was my own heart within me,She had more than common love,And more than common wit.
Poor little heart,Ada Queetie,
O my heart is consumed
In the coffin under ground,
O how I feel for her,
She and I could never part,
She was my own heart within me,
She had more than common love,
And more than common wit.
Poor little heart,Beauty Linna,She has consumed,In the coffin under ground,O how I feel for her,She was a cunning little heart.
Poor little heart,Beauty Linna,
She has consumed,
In the coffin under ground,
O how I feel for her,
She was a cunning little heart.
PoorTweedle, Tedel, Beebe, Pinky,Poor dear little heart,Sore broke in her,I am left broken-hearted,She was my own heart within me,She had more than common wit,She is taken from the evil to come.
PoorTweedle, Tedel, Beebe, Pinky,
Poor dear little heart,
Sore broke in her,
I am left broken-hearted,
She was my own heart within me,
She had more than common wit,
She is taken from the evil to come.
Them that knew me once, know—me—no—more,Till all things have their end,And they, and I, do meet in heaven.
PRAYERS.
O I pray for my Lord Jesus Christ,To destroy all sin, and all misery, for the afflicted,For the poor harmless dumb creatures,And for all the troubled,In the wide world around,For all that breathes the breath of life,Dumb creatures, and human too.O that I may leave this world of misery,O that I may see my Lord Jesus Christ,And live with him in heaven.O that I may meet my deceased friends in heaven;O that I may rise above those earthly afflictions, sickness, trials, and trouble. Amen.
O I pray for my Lord Jesus Christ,To destroy all sin, and all misery, for the afflicted,For the poor harmless dumb creatures,And for all the troubled,In the wide world around,For all that breathes the breath of life,Dumb creatures, and human too.O that I may leave this world of misery,O that I may see my Lord Jesus Christ,And live with him in heaven.O that I may meet my deceased friends in heaven;O that I may rise above those earthly afflictions, sickness, trials, and trouble. Amen.
O I pray for my Lord Jesus Christ,
To destroy all sin, and all misery, for the afflicted,
For the poor harmless dumb creatures,
And for all the troubled,
In the wide world around,
For all that breathes the breath of life,
Dumb creatures, and human too.
O that I may leave this world of misery,
O that I may see my Lord Jesus Christ,
And live with him in heaven.
O that I may meet my deceased friends in heaven;
O that I may rise above those earthly afflictions, sickness, trials, and trouble. Amen.
O Lord, my God of Heaven, Grant me, I beseech Thee, O Lord, I pray for Thy Kingdom to come, to destroy all sin, be done on earth as it is done in heaven, for the poor harmless dumb creatures, and for all the troubled in the wide world around. O I pray for all the inhabitants of the earth to be prepared to live in this world, and in the world to come. O that they may be true children of God, tender feelings, and kind to dear little hens, and other dumb creatures. O Lord, my God of Heaven, I know Thee will cut asunder the sinners hereafter and cast them to everlasting wo, if any one is cruel to dear little hens, and other dumb creatures. O Lord, I hope there is not any one so cruel, so sinful. Thy Kingdom come. Amen. O Lord protect me from committing sin.
NANCY LUCE.