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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.2152#0063
They arise from the terror, misery, or death of
helpless animals. A child in the nursery is taught
to impale butterflies and cock-chafers. The
school-boy's proud delight is clambering a tree
•' To rob the poor bird of its young."
Grown a gentle angler, he snares the scaly fry,
and scatters leaden death among the feathered te-
nants of the air.—Ripened to man, he becomes
a mighty hunter, is enamoured of the chace,
and crimsons his spurs in the sides of a generous
courser, whose wind lie breaks in the pursuit of an
inoffensive deer, or timid hare.
Many of our town diversions have the same
tendency. The bird, whose melodious warblings
echo through the grove, is imprisoned in a sort of
a Bastille, where, like an unplumed biped in a si-
milar situation, it frequently perishes through an-
guish or want of food. The high-crested chanti-
cleer, whose courage is innate, and only van-
quished by death, is furnished with weapons of
pointed steel, when, set in opposition to one of the
same species, armed in a similar style, these two
champions, for the diversion of the humane lords
of the creation, lacerate each other, until one or
both of them are slain.
The faithful dog, whose attachment and grati-
tude are exemplary, and worthy the imitation of
man; when in the possession of a farmer, or coun-
try "squire, is well fed, and has no great cause of
helpless animals. A child in the nursery is taught
to impale butterflies and cock-chafers. The
school-boy's proud delight is clambering a tree
•' To rob the poor bird of its young."
Grown a gentle angler, he snares the scaly fry,
and scatters leaden death among the feathered te-
nants of the air.—Ripened to man, he becomes
a mighty hunter, is enamoured of the chace,
and crimsons his spurs in the sides of a generous
courser, whose wind lie breaks in the pursuit of an
inoffensive deer, or timid hare.
Many of our town diversions have the same
tendency. The bird, whose melodious warblings
echo through the grove, is imprisoned in a sort of
a Bastille, where, like an unplumed biped in a si-
milar situation, it frequently perishes through an-
guish or want of food. The high-crested chanti-
cleer, whose courage is innate, and only van-
quished by death, is furnished with weapons of
pointed steel, when, set in opposition to one of the
same species, armed in a similar style, these two
champions, for the diversion of the humane lords
of the creation, lacerate each other, until one or
both of them are slain.
The faithful dog, whose attachment and grati-
tude are exemplary, and worthy the imitation of
man; when in the possession of a farmer, or coun-
try "squire, is well fed, and has no great cause of