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Frontispiece.
Kindness to Animals;
or, The
Sin of Cruelty
Exposed and Rebuked.
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Revised by the Committee of Publication of the American Sunday-schoolUnion.

Philadelphia:
American Sunday-school Union,
146 Chestnut Street.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1845, by Herman Cope,Treasurer, in trust for the American Sunday-school Union, in the Clerk’sOffice of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

Kindness to Animals.

Kindness to Animals.

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Chapter I.About the Beginning.

Many books have been written about animals, and very good books too,giving a great deal of information. Most of them are called works ofNatural History; and they usually give some description of the birdsand beasts, fishes and insects, that are known to man. I am not going towrite such a book as that; but to say a little about different kinds ofcreatures that we are all in the habit of seeing, and to tell you a fewthings of some which have belonged to me, or have come under my ownobservation; so that, at least, I can promise to write nothing but whatI know to be true. I have not learned their characters and habits frombooks, but by watching them ever since I was a very young child; andmany a happy hour I have spent in that delightful employment.

One of the first things that it came into my little head to ask was,“How were the animals made; and why were any of them made wild andcruel, while some are tame and quiet?” I was told that the Bible gave ananswer to that question; and so it does. If we look in the first chapterof Genesis, where there is an account of the creation of the world, wef

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