KINDNESS TO ANIMALS.
[To nu EDITOR or ma " Srecrarea.") Sut,—In reference to the Spectator's letters on kindness to animals, I recollect, when riding a donkey on Italian hills, remonstrating with the driver on his using his stick so frequently to his povera bestia. His reply was: "Non b Cristiano, non 4 battezzato, Signora." However, my words "gave him to think," for he became less ferocious to "the dumb ass." But nations that have no open Bible like Protestants, or teaching such as the Jews, "Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn," seem to be devoid of sympathy towards their four-footed friends—I-an, Sir,-&c., Shute Leigh, Wellington, Somerset. -C. Fox. [Our correspondent might have retorted that donkeys, though not baptized, bear the sign of the Cross on their backs.--Ee.
Spectator.]
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