CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —It must bo gratifying to those who have sympathy for dumb animals to see that the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is going to take into consideration the dehorning of cattle and the docking of horses’ tails. Let us hope that all right-mind-ed people-will back it up in its efforts to stamp out these ' cruel practices. These lines, from Bloomfield’s “ Seasons,” might bo taken to heart;— In thy behalf the crest-waved boughs avail More than thy short-clipped remnant of a tail; A moving mockery, a useless name, A living proof of cruelty and shame. Shame to the man, whatever fame he boro, ■Who took from thee what man can , ne'er restore; Thy weapon of defence, thy chiefest good, When swarming flies contending suck thy blood. —1 am, etc., J. A* WILLIAMS.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIII, Issue 13689, 4 March 1905, Page 10
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141CRUELTY TO ANIMALS. Lyttelton Times, Volume CXIII, Issue 13689, 4 March 1905, Page 10
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