LXIV
Clara Barton—intelligent and reclaiming, her leading attributes.
Atlanta (Ga.)Constitution.
Atlanta (Ga.)Constitution.
Atlanta (Ga.)Constitution.
Atlanta (Ga.)Constitution.
Pity it is to slay the meanest thing.Hood.
Man is an aristocrat among animals.Heine.
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul.Proverbs.
How deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to kill animals.Tolstoi.
Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men.
Joseph Addison.
Joseph Addison.
Joseph Addison.
Joseph Addison.
Could we understand the language of animals, how instructive a dialogue of dogs would be.Eudoxes.
Animals, in our degenerate age, are every day perishing under the hands of barbarity, without notice, without mercy.A. Dean.
Surely the sensibility of brutes entitles them to a milder treatment than they usually meet with from hard and unthinking wretches.A. Dean.
“Miss Barton, the butcher has been here today. He wants to buy the little Jersey calf; offered me $5.00 for it,” said the manager of the Red Cross home, “and I told him he could have it.” “But he can’t,—why didn’t you ask me about it?” “Well, I knew we couldn’t keep it; we need the milk—” “But the calf needs the milk too, and I tell you that the calf is notgoing to be killed.” “But I have sold it.” “That doesn’t make any difference; I haven’t—and it’s my calf.”
“You just ask your neighbors, and they’ll tell you that nobody thinks of raising a calf—in town here.” “But I’m not asking my neighbors.”
“Now, Miss Barton, don’t you know we have no pasturage and we have to buy all our feed, and feed is high now, too.”
“Never mind, we’ll get the feed.”
“But, Miss Barton, the calf is a nuisance around the house, and it will cost more——”
“Now, you’ve said enough; the calf isnota nuisance andIam paying the expenses. If you don’t want to take care of the calf, I’ll take care of it myself. Now go along and don’t talk to me any more about that calf. The butcher willnotget it.”
And the butcher didn’t get it.