him ask the opinion of the sixth judge. Now the sixth judge was a Jackal. The Brâhmana again told his story, and said to him, "Mâmâ (uncle) Jackal, Mâmâ Jackal, say what is your judgment?" The Jackal answered, "It is impossible for me to decide who is in the right and who in the wrong, unless I see the exact position in which you were when the dispute began. Show me the place." So the Brâhmana and the Tiger returned to the place where they first met, and the Jackal went with them. When they got there, the Jackal said, “Now, Brâhmana, show me exactly where you stood." "Here,' said the Brahmana, standing by the iron tiger-cage. "Exactly there, was it?" asked the Jackal. "Exactly here," replied the Brahmana. "Where was the tiger then?" asked the Jackal. "In the cage," answered the Tiger. "How do you mean?" said the Jackal. "How were you within the cage; which way were you looking?" Why, I stood so," said the Tiger, jumping into the cage, "and my head was on this side." "Very good,' said the Jackal, "but I cannot judge without under-standing the whole matter exactly. Was the cage-door open or shut?" "Shut and bolted," said the Brahmana "Then shut and bolt it," said the Jackal.

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When the Brahmana had done this, the Jackal said "Oh, you wicked and ungrateful Tiger! When the good Brahmana opened your cage-door, is to eat him the only return you would make? Stay there, then, for the rest of your days, for no one will ever let you out again. Proceed on your journey, friend Brâhmana. Your road lies that way, and mine this."

So saying the Jackal ran off in one direction, and the Brahmana went rejoicing on his way in the other.*

From Old Deccan Days by Mary Frere.

KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.

I think it is a great matter for young people to be brought up with an affectionate regard for animals. They have been sent into the world to render it happy and beautiful; and while admiring them, and caring for them, we are cultivating and improving our own feelings.

-CHAMBERS.

There is in every animal's eye a dim image and gleam of humanity, a flash of strange light through which their life looks out and up to our great mystery of command over them, and claims the fellowship of the creature, if not of the soul.

-RUSKIN.

Some animals are much more sensitively organised than many people are, and consequently they get the effects of our thoughts, our mental states and emotions much more readily than many people do. Therefore whenever we meet an animal we can do it good by sending out to it these thoughts of love. It will feel the effects whether we simply entertain or whether we voice them and it is often interesting to note how quickly it responds, and how readily it gives evidence of its appreciation of this love and consideration on our part.

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-RALPH WALDO TRINE.

If, instead of using the animals simply to serve our own selfish ends without a just recompense, without a thought further than as to what we can get out of them and then many times casting them off when broken or of

no further service, and many times looking down upon them, neglecting or even abusing them-if, instead of this, we would deal equitably with them, love them, train and educate them the same as we do our children, we would be somewhat surprised at the remarkable degree of intelligence the dumb brutes' possess, and also the remarkable degree of training they are capable of.

-RALPH WALDO TRINE.

Each kindness shown to birds or men,

Is sure to flutter back again.

They who bravely scorn to torture aught that has not power to turn;

They who look upon the mute things-seeing much to love and learn;

They who think that holy mercy is for all that live and feel;

These shall grace the Angel's record, stamped with the Almighty seal!

-ELIZA COOK.

KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.

I would not enter on my list of friends
(Though graced with polished manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility) the man

Who needlessly sets foot upon a worm.

An inadvertent step may crush the snail,
That crawls at evening in the public path;
But he that has humanity, forewarned,
Will tread aside, and let the reptile live.
The creeping vermin, loathsome to the sight,
And charged perhaps with venom, that intrudes,

A visitor unwelcome, into scenes,

Sacred to neatness and repose, the alcove,
The chamber or refectory, may die:
A necessary act incurs no blame.

Not so when, held within their proper bounds,
And guiltless of offence, they range the air,
Or take their pastime in the spacious field.
There they are privileged; and he that hunts
Or harms them there is guilty of a wrong,
Disturbs the economy of nature's realm,

Who, when she formed, designed them an abode.
The sum is this: If man's convenience, health,
Or safety interfere, his rights and claims
Are paramount, and must extinguish theirs.
Else they are all- -the meanest things that are-
As free to live, and to enjoy that life,

As God was free to form them at the first,
Who in his sovereign wisdom made them all.
Ye, therefore, who love mercy, teach your sons
To love it too.

-COWPER.

The generous heart

Should scorn a pleasure, which gives others pain.

The heart is hard in nature, and unfit

For human fellowship, as being void
Of sympathy, and therefore dead alike

-THOMSON.

To love and friendship both, that is not pleased With sight of animals enjoying life,

Nor feels their happiness augment his own.

-COWPER.

They have but the Present-a good reason too,

We should not abuse them you know;

They feel cold and hunger the same just as you,
And shrink from the pain of a blow :

And then they 're so grateful when kindness is shown,
So loving to those who caress-

Oh, brother, how hard must a young heart have grown

That derides a dumb creature's distress ! *

-MRS. NEWTON CROSSLAND.

Nor bird nor beast should we molest,
Or give them needless pain;

Although they cannot, when distressed
To any one complain.

Although committed to our care,

And given for us to use;

'Twould show us cruel should we dare

Dumb animals abuse.

Our safety, cleanliness, or food,

May oft their life require;

But wher's the tender heart, that would

For sport their pain desire?

Ne'er let us for amusement then

A living thing torment;
Nor join with any boys or men,

Who cruel deeds invent.t

To show cruelty to animals, to refuse them that nourishment and those conveniences which are necessary, is to act manifestly against the will of our common Creator, whose beneficent regards are extended to those creatures which are inferior to us.

"STURM'S REFLECTIONS."

From Chambers's Poems for Young People.

From Chambers's Infant Education.