VERY HUMANE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue XXI, 27 May 1899, Page 713

VERY HUMANE.

Doctor (Iruby, a physician of Paris, was famous for his eiforts to protect animals from cruelty. He went ■beyond those who are humane simply as far as four-footed creatures; he was logical enough to include insects in his mercy.

lie was, however, a little nervous, and when one day, in his parlour, a big, blue fly buzzed uninterruptedly on a window pane, the doctor's patience became a little worn, and he called his man-servant. ‘Do me the kindness,’ said the doctor, ‘to open the window and carefully put that fly outside." ‘lint, sir,’ said the servant, who thought of the drenching the room might get through an open easement, ‘it is raining hard outside!’ The doctor still thought of the fly, and not of his cushions.

‘Oh, is it?' he exclaimed. ‘Then please put the little creature in the waiting-room, .and let him stay there till the weather is fair!’