American Sunday-School Union

Kindness to Animals
or, The Sin of Cruelty Exposed and Rebuked

American Sunday-School Union

"Many books have been written about animals, and very good books too, giving a great deal of information. Most of them are called works of Natural History; and they usually give some descriptions of the birds and beasts, fishes and insects, that are known to man. I am not going to write such a book as that; but to say a little about different kinds of creatures that we are all in the habit of seeing, and to tell you a few things of some which have belonged to me, or have come under my own observation; so that, at least, I can promise to write nothing but what I know to be true. I have not learned their character and habits from book, but by watching them ever since I was a very young child; and many a happy hour I have spent in that delightful employment."

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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 4
Chapter 6
Chapter 7


Due to a misprint by the original publisher, there is no chapter 3.