He could not possibly jump over the fence or climb it. It was made of two wooden rails, nailed to posts, the rails placed one above the other like the bars of a gate. The lower rail was high from the ground, but not high enough for him to stoop down and push under. At last a man watched him. He saw the bull lie down close to the fence, and roll over on his back with all four legs in the air, and THE young lady standing by the goat, whilst her brother feeds it, has the kindness and good taste to wear silk gloves when she visits "goatee' and its mistress, so as not to hurt the feelings of either. She has many pets of her own, and, perhaps, some day we shall see portraits of them.E.P., Wareham, Dorset. thus he rolled himself into the little paddock where the nice grass grew. All his wives watched him, but not one of them tried to do the same thing. Yet they would all have followed if he had walked through a gap or an open gate. Perhaps they thought that he was setting them at bad example, or maybe they thought it too much trouble?-Your loving cousin, EDITH CARRINGTON. THE accompanying photo (by Walton Adams, of Reading) may be of interest to your readers as proving the effect of kindness in winning the confidence of animals and the formation of friendship between otherwise hereditary foes - the antics of the cat and rat, as the former hunted the latter among the shrubs in our little garden plot caused us much mirth, though their gambols played sad havoc therein. Their only disagreement was when each had a piece of lean meat (of which both were very fond). The rat would hastily dispose of his and try for a bit of Juby's allowance, when a growl and a spit would make him sit upright and, with front paws held out as if for defence, seem to plead for mercy. The rat was particularly fond of music, and when I played the concertina, ran all over me; also when a friend of mine came in and played the piccolo he used almost to perform the piper's dance, he was so delighted. GIDEON ASHDOWN, Reading. Selections from the Post Bag. Legends about Animals. T will answer Mr. Cunliffe and interest your readers generally to know that Dr. Brewer's "Dictionary of Miracles (Chatto and Windus, 1884), contains a great number of legends about animals chiefly connected with religion, and that in the index of this work will be found references to these stories from" Ass" to "Worms."-Yours truly, Tynemouth House, E. BERDOe. Victoria Park Gate, London, N.E. The Churches and Cruelty. To the Editor of the "ANIMALS' FRIEND." HE Bishops of the Anglican Communion from every quarter of the globe have been assembled in Conference at Lambeth, but in their encyclical letter no mention is made of man's duty to the lower animals. It is to me a great cause of regret that the church of which I am a humble minister so sadly, at any rate as far as its collective and authoritative utterances are concerned, neglects its duty by taking no account of the most crying evil of the time-cruelty to the weak and helpless whether due to indifference, greed or selfishness.-Yours, etc., THOMAS PERKINS, M.A., F.R.A.S. Turnworth Rectory, Blandford, Dorset, August, 1897. The Fur Industry. HE Hudson Bay Company are accused of great cruelty to bears. I hear that the trappers kill them by strychnia, causing days of agony. The bodies of the dead bears are found doubled up. It is said that this poison makes the fur glossy. Surely the dreadful case tried in Paris (the martyrdom of little Peter) must convince many what the torturing of animal leads to-the torture of human beings. D. HARRISON. Milligen, Clevedon, March 26th, 1897. [It depends very much on the effect strychnia has on the bears. If its action on them is similar to that on some other animals it ought to kill very quickly. Cruelty of any sort, at any time, is to be strongly reprobated. In killing animals the more speedy the method the less suffering there is, and it is a humane duty involving the personal honour of the person who kills to see that the suffering is of the slightest and briefest.-ED. A.F.] A Picture with a Moral. HAVE been a subscriber to the Animals* Friend from its commencement, and have had my interest in animals quickened, and my sympathies for them strengthened thereby. Being in London last week I paid a visit to the Victorian Era Exhibition at Earl's Court, and saw there a picture which I wish all your readers could see; but especially all thoseshould there be any-whose sympathies are either cold or wanting. I had not a catalogue of that section, so cannot point to the number or the room, but the title is on the picture"Vivisection; by Maclure Hamilton." A young man in Salvation Army costume was just turning from it as I reached it, with the remark, "I don't like the idea." But he had not caught the idea. The picture is, in reality, a mute but eloquent and touching appeal to let mercy rule. Near a window is shown the operating table, on which is a microscope and other instruments. There, too, is a white pigeon lying on its back with crumpled feathers stained with blood. Is it dead? And the operator, in his shirt sleeves, is standing with one hand behind him holding a bottle of fluid, and the other resting on the table. He is coolly contemplating his next victim, a pretty black-and-tan terrier, which evidently was once somebody's pet, for it had learnt to "beg." The little creature is sitting on its hind legs with its fore paws hanging down, its whole body evidently quivering with anticipated pain, and its large, beautiful eyes have such a pleading suffering look, that the man should have been turned from his heartless purpose for ever. ว Can it be possible to look upon that picture and come away a vivisectionist? It ought to do much towards rousing popular feeling to such a degree that the law shall of necessity be altered which permits the practice in any form or under any restrictions whatsoever. Pity, that to the triumphs and glories of the reign of the noblest Queen on record, we cannot add the total annihilation of vivisection. EDWIN C. R. LANGLEY. Board School, Bow Brickhill, Fenny Stratford, Bucks. 27th July, 1897. Mr. James Holden, of High Birch, Marland, near Heywood, left £1,000 to the Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children and Animals. NOTICE. 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