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I would not enter on my list of friends,
Though =raced with polished manners and fine sense,
Yet wanting sensibility, the man
TVho needlessly sets foot upon a worm.- Covs'per.
Vol. 9. BOSTON, JUNE, 1876. No. 1.
Animals.
Published on the first Tuesday of each Month
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186 WASHINGTON STREET, BOSTON.
An Eider-Down Dream.
I once received a beautiful and costly present,
and I desire to tell you the effect it had upon my
life. This present was a lovely puff of eider-down.
It was of purple silk, knotted with exquisite ro-
settes, scattered here and there upon its lustrous
surface, and when I spread it out, I longed to sleep
beneath it, so attractive did it look upon the bed
of snowy white. I made an excuse to retire early,
and as I luxuriously ensconced myself beneath the
rich coverlid, I could not feel its weight, so light
and airy was it.
[The writer soon fell asleep, and in her dreams
became an eider-duck. In due time a nest was
made, and six children blessed the mother and her
mate.]
But one lovely day, upon returning from a
distant flight, we found our home destroyed, our
nestlings, who were now ready to attend us South,
with the quivering flesh still warm, and from each
breast the skin had been torn, .and all bleeding,
they were scattered upon the shore. We stood
bereft at once of all joy and hope, for a moment
zazing at our children thus cruelly sacrificed;
then, as a confused sound reached us, rushed to
hide ourselves amid the reeds. I felt myself par-
alyzed with horror, upon first beholding those
dreadful beings, who carry devastation and de-
struction wherever they go, recklessly wiping out
.joy and life from God's otherwise happy world.
And when they seized the still warm bodies of
those helpless little ones, and tore the skin from
their heads, with harsh sounds of merriment, I
seemed to sink out of life, into forgetfulness and
death. My agony and sufferings were so great
that I awoke. I had lived a bird-life in one little
hour-the pleasures, delights and pangs of an
eider-duck. I pondered over my dream.
A belief is entertained that the touch, in a cer-
tain somnainbulic state, of some object, reveals to
the dreamer the true history of that object. I
arose and examined the robe of my bed. It was
truly the downy breasts of the birds, ingeniously
sewed together, and hidden between the silken
coverings, and, as I reseated myself, I thought,
have I not then known the true life of the bird,
whose own motherly breast was, subsequently,
perchance, added to those of her children, under
which I had reposed P Then there came back to
my memory the fact that my friend had also
brought from the north a curious and rare opera-
cloak, made of the skin of the heads of the eider-
duck, sewed also in a like manner together.
Does the fair and fashionable woman who wears
it, I silently asked myself, sometimes in the
midst of the gay crowd, whose beauty, light,
warmth and luxury surround her, does she, amid
the loveliest strains of music, sometimes feel a
sudden chill, and hear a mysterious sigh, as low
and gentle as the sweetest note that falls upon her
ear P Does she, when she throws the elegant cloak
about her, and when she hears it praised for its
rarity and worth, does she feel suddenly and
strangely oppressed and sad P Is it the essence
or spirit of the dead, in birds and animals and in-
sects sacrificed to our vanity, our love of gain,
our unnatural appetite, or our crueltv and thought-
lessness, which so often cause a suffering of soul
we cannot account for P Is not the atmosphere of
this world forever filled with sighs, which we hear
more and more distinctly, as we are lifted nearer
and nearer to God P
The old clock earnestly repeated the hour of mid-
night. I heaped the ashes up into a tiny altar. I
crowned it with the embers all flushed with rose
and amber, and offered upon it a sacrifice of all
my remaining hardness of heart, and a vow to
treat with respect and tenderness the sacred gift
of life, to approach with consecrated fingers and
gently remove if need be from out of my way all
those minute ones who are God's obedient children,
and to do for the amelioration of their condition,
when suffering, all that lies within my power. As
the sacrifice burned and the bright sparks flew
merrily up the wide-mouthed chimney, I felt a
new happiness enter and make itself a guest in
my heart. Thus my dream affects my whole
thought and life.
Dear little children, and children of older growth,
I pray you to protect, love, defend and cherish all
these speechless ones, whose very silence is the
strongest of appeals to all that is Godlike within
you. Dreams have often blessed the world; why
not this P-M. U. in New Bedford Standard.
Our Exhibition at the Centennial Exposition.
MAS§ACHUSETTS EDUCATIONAL DEPARTMENT.
Main Building, East Gallery, N. 77.
1. Model of compartment-car for horses.
2. Model of compartment-car for cattle, with ad-
justable partitions.
3. Model of compartment-car for swine,
4. Remer's swine-car.
(These cars furnish conveniences for food,
water, and rest.)
5. Hallett's harness saddle, with adjustable pads.
6. Boyd's open blinder.
7. Gordon's duplex whiffletree.
8. Hale's rubber covered bit.
9. Leather covered bit.
10. Raw-hide covered bit.
11. Wilder's wood covered bit.
12. Zinc collar pads to prevent galls.
13. Twenty varieties of horseshoes.
14. Gyro-pigeon.
15. Interfering strap.
16. Wire horse-brush.
17. Adjustable check-rein.
18. Cuts of drinking-troughs.
19. Various books and essays.
20. OUR CENTENNIAL NUMBER.
Our Dumb
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