128 CONCLUSION.

CONCLUSION.

I rrust, my dear young friends, not only that the narratives
I have given you may prove interesting, but that you will
learn from them to pay due respect to all animals, however
mean and insignificant you may have been accustomed to
consider them. They think and reason in their way. They
not only suffer bodily pain, but they have feelings in a re-
markable degree like your own; and you must admit that it
is cruel to hurt those feelings by anything like ill-treatment
or neglect,